Trogoderma

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Trogoderma
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Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Dermestidae
Tribe: Megatomini
Genus: Trogoderma
Dejean, 1821
Trogoderma angustum Trogoderma angustum (Solier, 1849).jpg
Trogoderma angustum
Trogoderma glabrum Trogoderma glabrum.jpg
Trogoderma glabrum
Trogoderma granarium Trogoderma granarium Everts, 1899 (30364726883).png
Trogoderma granarium
Trogoderma megatomoides Trogoderma megatomoides.jpg
Trogoderma megatomoides
Trogoderma variabile larva CSIRO ScienceImage 2598 Warehouse beetle larvae Trogoderma variabile.jpg
Trogoderma variabile larva
Trogoderma versicolor Trogoderma versicolor.jpg
Trogoderma versicolor

Trogoderma is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae, the skin beetles. There are about 135 species worldwide. [1]

Contents

Some species are pests of stored animal and plant products. [2]

Taxonomy

Recent research shows that Trogoderma (in its broad, traditional definition) is polyphyletic. Many species in the Southern Hemisphere are in a clade that is genetically distinct from the Holarctic species clade, which led to their proposed reclassification under the genus Eurhopalus (Zhou et al., 2022). [3] However, this change is not widely adopted - e.g., the World Dermestidae Catalogue (Jiří Háva, 2023) still recognizes the old classification system and actively reinstated several genera synonymized with Eurhopalus. [4]

Species

References

  1. ↑ Háva, J. (2009). Review of the genus Trogoderma from Madagascar (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae). Archived 2019-08-02 at the Wayback Machine Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 9(2), 111-117.
  2. ↑ Wei, C., et al. (2015). Scanning electron microscope observations on the antennal sensilla of two stored grain pests Trogoderma granarium and Trogoderma variabile (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Florida Entomologist, 98(1), 140-148.
  3. ↑ Yu-Lingzi Zhou; James A Nicholls; Zhen-Hua Liu; Diana Hartley; Andras Szito; Adam Ślipiński; Andreas Zwick (1 November 2022). "Molecular Phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) Reveals the Polyphyletic Nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the Taxonomic Placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts" (PDF). Insect Systematics and Diversity. 6 (6). doi:10.1093/ISD/IXAC026. ISSN   2399-3421. Wikidata   Q116673277. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
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