Bostrichidae

Taxobox
name = Bostrichidae

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image_caption = "Amphicerus cornutus"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
superfamilia = Bostrichoidea
familia = Bostrichidae
familia_authority = Latreille, 1802
diversity_link = Bostrichidae
diversity = "c." 700 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

The Bostrichidae are a family of beetles with more than 700 described species. They are commonly called auger beetles, false powderpost beetles or horned powderpost beetles. The head of most auger beetles cannot be seen from above, as it is downwardly directed and hidden by the thorax. An exception is the powderpost beetles from the subfamily Lyctinae.

"Bostrychoplites cornutus" has large, distinctive thoracic horns, and is found in parts of Africa and Arabia; it is often imported to Europe as larvae in African wooden bowls ("ethnic souvenirs") [cite web |url=http://www.padil.gov.au/viewPest.aspx?id=98 |title=Auger beetle "Bostrychoplites cornutus" (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae: Bostrichinae) |publisher=Pest and Diseases Image Library |date=2006-11-23 |author=Ken Walker] .

pecies

This list is incomplete [cite web |url=http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/system/bostrich.htm |title=Bostrichidae |date=2004-11-11 |publisher=CSIRO] :

* "Amphicerus cornutus" (Pallas, 1772)
* "Prostephanus truncatus" (Horn, 1878)

;Species found in Australia
* "Dinoderus minutus" (Fabricius)
* "Heterobostrychus aequalis" (Waterhouse)
* "Lyctus brunneus" (Stephens)
* "Lyctus discedens" Blackburn
* "Lyctus parallelocollis" Blackburn
* "Mesoxylion collaris" (Erichson)
* "Mesoxylion cylindricus" (Macleay)
* "Minthea rugicollis" (Walker)
* "Rhyzopertha dominica" (Fabricius) - lesser grain borer
* "Sinoxylon anale" (Lesne)
* "Xylion cylindricus" Macleay
* "Xylobosca bispinosa" (Macleay)
* "Xylodeleis obsipa" Germar
* "Xylopsocus gibbicollis" (Macleay)
* "Xylothrips religiosus" (Boisduval)
* "Xylotillus lindi" (Blackburn)

;Species found in the United Kingdom
* "Bostrichus capucinus"
* "Bostrychoplites cornutus" (Olivier, 1790)
* "Stephanopachys substriatus"
* "Trogoxylon parallelopipedum"
* "Lyctus cavicollis"
* "Lyctus linearis" (Goeze, 1877)
* "Lyctus planicollis"
* "Lyctus sinensis"

References

External inks

* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/oriental_wood_borer.htm "Heterobostrychus aequalis", an oriental wood borer] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/beetles/s_lyctus_beetle.htm "Lyctus planicollis", southern lyctus beetle] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
* [http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/trees/false_powder_post_beetle.htm "Xylopsocus capucinus", a false powderpost beetle] on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site