Stegobium paniceum
Drugstore beetle at Kambah, ACT
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| Stegobium paniceum | KimPullen | 12 Mar 2021 | |
| Unverified | HarveyPerkins | 8 Mar 2021 |
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User's notes
Suggest this is Stegobium paniceum (Drugstore or Biscuit Beetle), family Anobiidae (or Subfamily Anobiinae, Family Ptinidae). There are LOTS of these biscuit beetles in our packets of dried papadums, which have been on the shelf for a while, such that I will refer to them instead now as Papadum Beetles. P.S. As with the sailors of old, their presence didn't stop me shaking them out and still eating the papadums!
2 comments
8 Mar 2021
And by the way; these beetles are not dead - just warming up from a few minutes in the freezer...
Location information
- Coordinates 149.036763-35.393768
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 8 Mar 2021 01:22 PM Recorded on
- HarveyPerkins Recorded by
- Less than 5mm Animal size
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- Insects Beetles (Coleoptera) Other beetles HarveyPerkins Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Stegobium paniceum
Species information
- Stegobium paniceum Scientific name
- Drugstore beetle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Minor weed or pest
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