Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Insects as pests of stored products

Introduction and scope

Origins of stored product insects

Impacts of infestation

Feeding strategies

Impact of environmental conditions on population growth

How to use this guide

Orders of insects associated with stored products

Beetles (Order: Coleoptera)

The structure of beetles

Identifying families of beetles of stored products

Anobiid beetles, Spider beetles (Family: Anobiidae)

Anobiid beetles (Family: Anobiidae, Subfamily: Anobiinae)

Spider beetles (Family: Anobiidae, Subfamily: Ptininae –formerly Family: Ptinidae)

Anthribid beetles (Family: Anthribidae)

Bostrichid beetles (Family: Bostrichidae)

Clerid beetles, Chequered beetles (Family: Cleridae)

Bruchid or seed beetles (Family: Chysomelidae, Subfamily: Bruchinae – formerlyFamily: Bruchidae)

Weevils (Family: Curculionidae)

Dermestid beetles (Family: Dermestidae)

Variegated carpet beetles,Museum beetles (Genus: Anthrenus)

Australian carpet beetle (Anthrenocerus australis)

Black carpet beetles, Fur beetles (Genus: Attagenus)

Hide beetles, Larder beetles (Genus: Dermestes)

Khapra beetle,Warehouse beetle (Genus: Trogoderma)

Histerid beetles (Family: Histeridae)

Flat grain beetles (Family: Laemophloeidae – formally Family: Cucujidae)

Minute mould beetles, Plaster beetles (Families: Cryptophagidae and Latridiidae)

Lophocaterid beetles (Family: Lophocateridae – formerly included in the familyTrogossitidae)

Hairy fungus beetles (Family: Mycetophagidae)

Dried fruit beetle, Corn sap beetles, Sap beetles, Carpophilus species

(Family: Nitidulidae) Silvanid beetles (Family: Silvanidae)

Tenebrionid beetles, Darkling beetles (Family: Tenebrionidae)

Lesser mealworms, Black fungus beetle (Genus: Alphitobius)

Churchyard beetles, Egyptian beetle (Blaps spp.)

Larger black flour beetle (Cynaeus angustus)

Horned flour beetles (Genus: Gnatocerus)

Longheaded flour beetle (Latheticus oryzae)

Palembus (Ulomoides) spp.

Smalleyed flour beetles (Genera: Palorus and Coleopalorus)

Sitophagus hololeptoides

Mealworms (Genus: Tenebrio)

Flour beetles (Genus: Tribolium)

Trogossitid beetles (Family: Trogossitidae)

Moths and Butterflies (Order: Lepidoptera)

Oecophorid moths (Family: Oecophoridae)

Gelechiid moths (Family: Gelechiidae)

Pyralid moths (Family: Pyralidae)

Tineid moths (Family: Tineidae)

Psocids, Booklice and Dustlice (Order: Psocoptera)

Psocids, Booklice and Dustlice (Families: Lachesillidae, Liposcelididae, Psyllipsocidaeand Trogiidae)

Bugs (Order: Hemiptera)

Predatory bugs (Families: Anthocoridae and Reduviidae)

Parasitic wasps (Order: Hymenoptera)

Parasitic wasps (Order: Hymenoptera)

Finding and trapping storage insects

Introduction

Sampling and inspection

Trapping

Collecting, preserving and shipping specimens for identification

Collection data

Handling insect specimens

Preservation of specimens

Getting help from a specialist

Packing and shipping

References and resources

Printed material

The worldwide web

Index to species

By scientific name

By common name

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