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Lasioderma serricorne

Fabricius, 1792
Arthropoda » Coleoptera » Anobiidae » Lasioderma serricorne
Common name (English)
Cigarette beetle; Cigar beetle; Tobacco beetle
Ηabitat
J1 Buildings
I1 Arable

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Establishment status
Indoors
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
1873
Impacts
Negative

Pest of cured tobacco. "Tobacco leaf is attacked and damaged while awaiting export and so also is imported leaf in the sotres of the cigarette factories. Probably the most serious damage is rgat which occurs to the cigarettes after they have been packed and exported, the workings of the beetles and their larvae causing holes in the paper of the cigarettes. Some precautions are taken in some of the factories and in one or two cases the cigarettes are fumigated with HCN before export. This insect has also been found damaging stored tobacco seed. Other stored materials are also attacked, but grain is not so usually attacked except after long storage" (Morris 1937); "Bred from cured tobacco, almond shell, dry fennel stem; coll. from stored wheat" (Georghiou 1977).

Pathway
3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Food contaminant – Food
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Organic packing material – Org
Pathway detail

CBD pathways per EASIN (2023).

References

Baudi di Selve F (1874) Coleopterorum messis in insula Cypro et Asia minore ab Eugenio Truqui congregatae recensitio: de Europaeis notis quibusdam additis. Pars quinta. Berliner
Entomologische Zeitschrift 17: 317-338.

Morris HM (1937) Injurious insects of Cyprus. Agricultural Department of Cyprus, Bulletin 4 (Ent. Ser. ) 21 pp.

Georghiou GP (1977) The insects and mites of Cyprus. With emphasis on species of economic importance to agriculture, forestry, man and domestic animals. Benaki Phytopathological Institute. Kiphissia, Athens Greece 347 pp.

Zahradník P, Demetriou J (2023) A review of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Cyprus, including new faunistic records and the description of a new species. Zootaxa 5306 (2): 243-265. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5306.2.5

EASIN (2023) European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
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