Lyctus africanus Lesne, 1907: 302

Liu, Lan-Yu, 2021, An annotated synopsis of the powder post beetles (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) of Mainland China, Zootaxa 5081 (3), pp. 389-419 : 408

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5081.3.5

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5777186

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scientific name

Lyctus africanus Lesne, 1907: 302
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Lyctus africanus Lesne, 1907: 302 View in CoL .

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Bostrichidae

Genus

Lyctus

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