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A revised Key to the Larvae of the Ptinidae associated with Stored Products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

D. W. Hall  and
R. W. Howe
D. W. Hall
Affiliation:
Zoology Department, St. Andrews University, University College, Dundee,*
R. W. Howe
Affiliation:
Pest Infestation Laboratory, Departmentof Scientific & Industrial Research.
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During the past 12 years, records of beetles of the family Ptinidae as pests of stored products in Britain have been increasing in frequency. Kloet & Hincks (1945) record 21 British species of Ptinids, but of these, three species, Ptinus palliatus, Perris, P. pilosus Mueller and P. latefasciatus Gorh., have not so far been recorded from warehouses or stored products and a furthertwo species, P. lichenum Marsh. and P. subpilosus Sturm have only rarely been recorded from such habitats. The importance of birds' nests as reservoirs of pests of stored products is being shown in a paper to be published shortly by Woodroffe and Southgate who carried out a survey of the fauna of the nests of birds associated with buildings. They found that the fauna of such a habitat was extraordinarily similar to that of warehouses in this country and that very large numbers of several species of Ptinids were present. The risk of this habitat being a possible source of many Ptinid infestations can be gleaned from the following list of species which they found:—

Ptinus tectus Boield., P. fur (L.), P. sexpunctatus Panz., P. pusillus Sturm, P. subpilosus Sturm, Eurostus hilleri (Reitt.), Niptus hololeucus (Fald.), Mezium affine Boield., Trigonogenius globulus Sol.

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Original Articles
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , May 1953 , pp. 85 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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