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Tribolium castaneum
Authors/Creators
- 1. INRA - UMR 1062 CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, Montpellier Supagro), Campus international de Baillarguet, CS 30016, F- 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex (France) soldati @ supagro. inra. fr kergoat @ supagro. inra. fr
- 2. Mathématiques appliquées - UMR 7641 (CNRS, École polytechnique), route de Saclay, F- 91128 Palaiseau cedex (France) fabien. condamine @ gmail. com
Description
Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797)
Colydium castaneum Herbst, 1797: 282.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, CETRAV in Saraoutou, 23-28.X.2006, at light, leg. L. Soldati, 1 ♂ (MNHN).
DISTRIBUTION. — Tribolium castaneum is a cosmopolitan species and one of the most important stored product pests around the world. It is known to infest the following commodities: barley, bran, cacao, ginger, maize, millet, manioc, nutmeg, peanut, pepper, rice, sorghum, tapioca and yam (Delobel & Tran 1993). This species can also damage entomological collections.
Notes
Published as part of Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, pp. 305-317 in Zoosystema 34 (2) on page 308, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a8, http://zenodo.org/record/5165431
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Herbst
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Tenebrionidae
- Genus
- Tribolium
- Species
- castaneum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797) sec. Soldati, Kergoat & Condamine, 2012
References
- HERBST J. F. W. 1797. - Natursystem aller bekannten in- und auslandischen Insekten, als eine Forsetzung der von Buffonschen Naturgeschichte. Der Kafer siebenter Theil. Geh. Commerzien-Raths Pauli, Berlin, 346 p.
- DELOBEL A. & TRAN M. 1993. - Les Coleopteres des denrees alimentaires entreposees dans les regions chaudes. Faune tropicale XXXII. ORSTOM / CTA Editions, Paris, 424 p.