grain beetle
noun1
Any of several beetles from the families Silvanidae and Laemophloeidae that infest grains and grain products.
- 1987, Gennadiĭ Alekseevich Zakladnoĭ, Vera Flegontovna Ratanova, Stored Grain Pests and Their Control, Oxonian Press, page 41, For instance, the saw-toothed grain beetle is commonly found, and prefers to develop, in dry fruits and naturally, its occurrence is mainly limited to fruit growing regions. The rusty grain beetle prefers crushed grain and therefore, usually inhabits grain mills and is widely distributed.
- Taylor's power law overestimated the variance for the flat grain beetle and squarenosed fungus beetle (Lathridius minutus [L.]), and underestimated the variance for foreign grain beetle, larger black flour beetle, rusty grain beetle, and hairy fungus beetle.1995, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, David W. Hagstrum, “4: Sampling”, in Bhadriraju Subramanyam, David W. Hagstrum, editors, Integrated Management of Insects in Stored Products, page 159:
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- Adults (0.3 cm in length) of the sawtoothed grain beetle and the merchant grain beetle are very similar in appearance to each other but can be easily distinguished from other food pest insects by the six sawlike projections on each side of the prothorax.2002, Linda Mason, “19: Insects and Mites”, in Y. H. Hui, L. Bernard Bruinsma, J. Richard Gorham, Wai-Kit Nip, Phillip S. Tong, Phil Ventresca, editors, Food Plant Sanitation, page 300:
- Derived terms
- flat grain beetle, foreign grain beetle, merchant grain beetle, rusty grain beetle, saw-toothed grain beetle, square-necked grain beetle
- Related terms
- flour beetle