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Carpophilus (Myothorax) mutilatus (Nitidulidae: Carpophilini) - Atlas of dried fruit beetles of Russia

А.G. Kirejtshuk, А. Gеrrmаnn



          Family Nitidulidae (Atlas of dried fruit beetles of Russia)
       Tribe Carpophilini Erichson, 1843
    Genus Carpophilus Stephens, 1829
Subgenus Myothorax Murray, 1864

synonymes:hemipterus Fabricius, 1792, non Linneus, 1758; bimaculatus Montrouzier, 1860, non Marsham, 1802; puberulus Montrouzier, 1860; luridus Murray, 1864; obscurus MacLeay, 1873.


Llength of body: 2.1 - 3.9 mm


Carpophilus mutilatus -
Germany, from collection of А. Gеrrmаnn
(photo by A. Herrmann)

Literature:

Кирейчук А.Г. 1992. Сем. Блестянки - Nitidulidae.; В кн.: Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока, Ст-Петербург, Наука, Т. 3, часть 2: 114-209.

Audisio, P. 1993. Coleoptera Nitidulidae-Kateretidae. Fauna d'Italia. Idizioni Calderini, Bologna, 32: 971 pp.

Connell, W.A. 1991. Sap beetles (Nitidulidae, Coleoptera). Insect and mite pests in food. An illustrated key. Agricultural Handbook (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office), 655: 151-175.

Delobel, A. & Tran, M. 1993. Les Coléoptères des denrées alimentaires entreposйes dans les régions chaudes. Faune tropicale, Paris, Orstom/CTA, 32, 424 pp.

Hayashi, N. 1978. A contribution to the knowledge of the larvae of Nitidulidae occuring in Japan (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea). Insecta Matsumurana, (N.S.), 14: 1-98.

 Kirejtshuk, A.G. 1996. Some results of study on the Nitidulidae from Namibia and adjacent territories. Part 1 (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Nitidulidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 72, 1: 21-52.

Spornraft, K. 1967. 50. Familie: Nitidulidae. in: Freude, H., Harde, K.W., & Lohse, G.A. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Goecke & Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 7: 20-77.

Spornraft, K. 1992. 50. Familie: Nitidulidae. in: Freude, H., Harde, K.W., & Lohse, G.A. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Goecke & Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 13: 91-110.

Stebbing, E.P. 1914 (1977). Indian forest insects of economic importance. Coleoptera. Delhi, Bhopal, J.K. Jain Brothers, 648 pp.

Other sources " Dried fruit beetles (Nitidulidae)" in a section " Scientific essays about families of beetles ".