Lyctus brunneus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Bostrichidae |
| Genus: | Lyctus |
| Species: | L. brunneus
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| Binomial name | |
| Lyctus brunneus (Stephens, 1830)
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Lyctus brunneus is a xylophage (wood-eating) insect[1] a species of beetle in the family Bostrichidae. It is a member of the subfamily Lyctinae, the powderpost beetles. It is known commonly as the brown powderpost beetle[2] or brown lyctus beetle.
Today it is distributed worldwide but it was probably originally native to the Neotropical realm.[3]
Like other powderpost beetles, this species lives in wood.[4]
References
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- ^ Wood Eating Bugs - Insects That Eat Wood, Animal Wised, accessed 31 July 2020.
- ^ Lyctus brunneus. PaDIL.
- ^ Ebeling, W. Chapter 5: Wood-Destroying Insects and Fungi. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Urban Entomology. UC Riverside Entomology.
- ^ Pest Notes: Wood-Boring Beetles in Homes. Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California. UC ANR Publication 7418.
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