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Lyctus brunneus (Powderpost beetle)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lyctus brunneus is a species of beetle in the family Bostrichidae. It is a member of the subfamily Lyctinae, the powderpost beetles. It is known commonly as the brown powderpost beetle or brown lyctus beetle. Today it is distributed worldwide but it was probably originally native to the Neotropical region. Like other powderpost beetles, this species lives in wood.
View Wikipedia Record: Lyctus brunneus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Epping Forest 3966 England, United Kingdom  
Essex Estuaries 114016 England, United Kingdom
Richmond Park 2092 England, United Kingdom  
The New Forest 72309 England, United Kingdom

Prey / Diet

Acer pseudoplatanus (sycamore)[1]
Beilschmiedia tawa (Tawa tree)[2]
Eucalyptus viminalis (manna gum)[2]
Knightia excelsa (rewarewa)[2]
Populus nigra (Lombardy poplar)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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