Lyctus africanus Lesne 1907
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Lyctus africanus Lesne, 1907: 302.
Distribution in mainland China: GD, GX, SC, YN, ZJ (Hua 2002).
Outside distribution: Turkey, Israel, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan, Papua New Guinea. This is a rather pan-tropical species trending towards a cosmopolitan distribution. Introduced to Africa, Madagascar, Australia, USA. (Liu & Geis 2019)
Biology. The species is polyphagous. Lesne (1924) listed Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. (Malvaceae), Havardia albicans (Kunth) Britton & Rose and Albizzia spp. (Fabaceae) as host plants in Africa. Beeson & Bhatia (1937) listed more than eighty-five host-plants in India. Gerberg (1957) and Cymorek (1961) recorded it from Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (Fabaceae) and other dry roots. Iwata (1982) added Morus alba L. (Moraceae) as a host plant in Japan.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesne
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Bostrichidae
- Genus
- Lyctus
- Species
- africanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lyctus africanus Lesne, 1907 sec. Liu, 2021
References
- Hua, L. Z. (2002) List of Chinese Insects. Vol. 2. Zhongshan University Press, Guangzhou, 612 pp.
- Liu, L. Y. & Geis, K. U. (2019). A synopsis of the Lyctine beetles of Eurasia with a key to the species (Insecta: Coleoptera: Bostrichidae: Lyctinae). Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 9 (2), 34 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2019.09.2.1
- Lesne, P. (1924) Les coleopteres bostrychides de l'Afrique tropicale francaise. Encyclopedie Entomologique, Series A, 3, 1 - 301.
- Beeson, C. F. C. & Bhatia, B. M. (1937) On the biology of the Bostrychidae (Coleopt.). Indian Forest Records, New Series Entomology, 2, 223 - 323.
- Gerberg, E. J. (1957) The New World species of powder-post beetles belonging to the family Lyctidae. U. S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin, 1157, 1 - 55.
- Cymorek, S. (1961) Die in Mitteleuropa einheimischen und eingeschleppten Splintholzkafer aus der Familie Lyctidae. Entomologische Blatter, 57, 76 - 102.
- Iwata, R. (1982) Occurrence Records of Minthea rugicollis (Walker) and an unrecorded species, Lyctus africanus Lesne (Col., Lyctidae) from Japan. Kaoku Gaichu, 13 / 14, 60 - 63.