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Rhyzopertha dominica
Authors/Creators
- 1. Honghe University, College of Biological & Agricultural Sciences, Mengzi, Yunnan 661199, China. & zhang _ yifeng @ foxmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3264 - 9472
- 2. Honghe University, College of Biological & Agricultural Sciences, Mengzi, Yunnan 661199, China.
- 3. 161 / 2 Mu 5, Soi Wat Phranon, T. Donkaew, A. Maerim, Chiangmai 50180, Thailand.
Description
Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792)
Synodendron dominicum Fabricius, 1792: 359.
Distribution in China. Recorded from most provinces including: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang. Recorded from Yunnan by Li (1992), but not found in our collections.
Other distribution. Cosmopolitan species. CABI (2021b) gives details of the worldwide distribution.
Host plants. In tropical countries, it develops in tree branches, bamboo and rattan; in cooler areas it attacks cereal grains and products. Introduced throughout the world and established in many countries—mainly in grain stores (CABI 2021b).
Notes
Published as part of Zhang, Yi-Feng, Meng, Ling-Zeng & Beaver, Roger A., 2022, A review of the non-lyctine powder-post beetles of Yunnan (China) with a new genus and new species (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae), pp. 501-545 in Zootaxa 5091 (4) on page 516, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5863820
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- 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. Zhang, Meng & Beaver, 2022
References
- Li, H. - X. (1992) Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, Ptinidae, Salvanidae, Mycetophagidae, Cucujidae and Bruchidae. In: Insects of The Hengduan Mountains Region, The Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Vol. 1. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 580 - 585. [in Chinese]
- CABI (2021 b) Rhyzopertha dominica (lesser grain borer), Invasive Species Compendium - Datasheets, maps, images, abstracts and full text on invasive species of the world. Available from: http: // www. cabi. org / isc / datasheet / 47191 (accessed 11 December 2021)