Rhyzopertha dominica

(Fabricius, 1792)

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Common name (English)

Lesser grain borer; American wheat weevil; Australian wheat weevil; Stored grain borer

Ηabitat

I1 Arable

J1 Buildings

Global distribution

Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China) 373 0; North America 132 0; Oceania 131 0; South America 104 0; Southern Asia 128 0

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Establishment status

Indoors

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1873

Impacts

Negative

Damaring stored barley (Morris 1937); infesting stored grain (Georghiou 1977); stored product pest in cereal (Gözüaçık et al. 2015).

Online resource

http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1…

Pathway

3 TRANSPORT CONTAMINANT - Food contaminant – Food

Pathway detail

CBD pathway per EASIN (2023).

Other notes

as Rhyzopertha pusilla (Fabricius, 1798) in Baudi di Selve (1874).

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.

Gözüaçık C, Güllü M, Konuksal A, Yücel A, Hekimhan H (2015) Insect species of stored cereal in Northern Cyprus [Poster presentation]. Conference: 2nd International Symposium for Agriculture and Food Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia.

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