Oryzaephilus mercator

Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel, 1889) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 23.IV.1985, L.S. Th ompson, in house, (3, ACPE). Oryzaephilus mercator is newly recorded in Prince Edward Island. It was reported from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and insular Newfoundland by Bousquet (1991). This c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Majka, Christopher G.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Oryzaephilus
Oryzaephilus mercator
Canada
Charlottetown
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/3793158
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793158
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Summary:Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel, 1889) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 23.IV.1985, L.S. Th ompson, in house, (3, ACPE). Oryzaephilus mercator is newly recorded in Prince Edward Island. It was reported from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and insular Newfoundland by Bousquet (1991). This cosmopolitan species is one of the most common household pests in Canada. Adults and larvae feed primarily on cereal products, particularly oatmeal, bran, shelled sunflower seeds, rolled oats, and brown rice (Bousquet 1990). Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 226, DOI:10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402

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