European lyctus beetle

Taxobox
name = European lyctus beetle
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
familia = Bostrichidae
genus = "Lyctus"
species = "L. linearis"
binomial = "Lyctus linearis"
binomial_authority = (Goeze, 1877)

European lyctus beetle ("Lyctus linearis") is a wood-boring beetle in the family horned powder-post beetles (Bostrichidae). This family of beetles was defined by Pierre André Latreille in 1802. The lyctus beetle lives primarily in dry trunks of oak.