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Rhyzopertha dominica
Authors/Creators
- 1. " Grigore Antipa " National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff Road no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania & University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Splaiul Independenței 91 - 95, Bucharest, R- 050095, Romania
- 2. Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research on the Marine Environment and Marine Terrestrial Atmosphere, Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea Marine Biological Station, Nicolae Titulescu str. no. 163, Agigea, Constanţa, Romania & Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Biology, " Alexandru Ioan Cuza " University of IaȘi, Carol I Avenue, 20 A, 700505 IaȘi, Romania
- 3. Romanian Academy, Calea Victoriei no. 125, 010071 Bucharest, Romania
- 4. Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale G. Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy
Description
Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792)
Materials examined. Mehedinți County: Izvoru Frumos (near), 43.9355°N / 27.9952°E, 09. VI.2023, sandy area, Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci leg. (1 specimen), COMC.
Remarks. Thought to originate from the Indian subcontinent (Edde 2012), it is now a cosmopolitan species (Borowski 2007; Nardi & Mifsud 2015) and one of the most serious pests in grain storage (Javanmard et al. 2023). The species is polyphagous on different grains, including starch-based substrates, and on wood packaging (Hendrival & Aryani 2019). In Romania, it was first recorded in 1975 (Teodorescu et al. 2006).
Notes
Published as part of Drăghici, Andreea-Cătălina, Pintilioaie, Alexandru-Mihai, Murariu, Dumitru, Manci, Cosmin-Ovidiu & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2025, New additions and further records of non-native Coleoptera in Romania, pp. 409-428 in Zootaxa 5575 (3) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/14747112
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- COMC , VI
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Bostrichidae
- Genus
- Rhyzopertha
- Species
- dominica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792) sec. Drăghici, Pintilioaie, Murariu, Manci & Ruzzier, 2025
References
- Borowski, J. (2007) Bostrichidae. In: Lobl, I & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 320 - 328.
- Nardi, G. & Mifsud, D. (2015) The Bostrichidae of the Maltese Islands (Coleoptera). ZooKeys, 481, 69 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 481.8294
- Javanmard, P., Jafari, S. & Mardani-Talaee, M. (2023) The life table parameters of Rhyzopertha dominica (F.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) reared on nine rainfed barley cultivars. Journal of Stored Products Research, 104, 102195. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jspr. 2023.102195
- Hendrival, A. D. & Aryani, D. S. (2019) Susceptibility and damage cereals to infestation Rhyzopertha dominica (F.) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in storage. Jurnal Agro, 6 (1), 57 - 65. https: // doi. org / 10.15575 / 4276
- Teodorescu, I., Manole, T. & Iamandei, M. (2006) The main alien / invasive insects species in Romania. Romanian Journal of Biology-Zoology, 51 (1 - 2), 43 - 61.