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Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle)

Synonyms: Colydium castaneum (homotypic); Scleron ferrugineum; Tenebrio ferrugineum (homotypic); Tribolium ferrugineum; Tribolium navale
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. It is a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological and food safety research. This species closely resembles the confused flour beetle, except with three clubs at the end of each of its antennae.
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Prey / Diet

Crotalaria pallida (smooth rattlebox)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hymenolepis diminuta[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0