Tribolium (Tribolium) castaneum (Herbst, 1797)

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, Zootaxa 5575 (3), pp. 409-428 : 417

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4B1C253B-95F1-4F55-8EA1-F311AB52A6A2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14747183

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F687B8-A326-5625-7F94-3D6EFABDF8ED

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Tribolium (Tribolium) castaneum (Herbst, 1797)
status

 

Tribolium (Tribolium) castaneum (Herbst, 1797)

Materials examined. Constanța County: Dumbrăveni (near), 43.9355°N / 27.9952°E, 16 September 2022, pasture— at light, Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci leg. (1 specimen), COMC GoogleMaps .

Remarks. Species of Ethiopian origin ( Hinton 1948), now cosmopolitan with records in 156 countries ( Campbell et al. 2022). It is one of the most important and injurious insect species that attacks stored agricultural products in mills and warehouses around the world ( Edde et al. 2012). Seidlitz (1891) is one of the oldest mentions of its presence in Romania. In Romania, it has been introduced with stored products ( Teodorescu et al. 2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

Genus

Tribolium

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