Anobium
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| Genus: | Anobium Fabricius, 1775
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Anobium is a genus of beetles in the family Anobiidae.[1] The name Anobium comes from the Greek for "lifeless", inspired by the beetles' habit of playing dead when disturbed.[2]
Most species eat wood and wood products. The common furniture beetle (A. punctatum) is known for damaging books.[2]
Several fossil beetles of this genus have been described from the Green River Formation and from Baltic amber.[3]
Extant species include:
- Anobium alexandri
- Anobium costatum
- Anobium cymoreki
- Anobium emerginatum
- Anobium fulvicorne
- Anobium hederae
- Anobium inexspectatum
- Anobium nitidum
- Anobium pertinax
- Anobium punctatum – common furniture beetle
- Anobium rufipenne
- Anobium striatum
- Anobium ussuriensis
References
Wikispecies has information related to Anobium.
- ^ Anobium. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
- ^ a b Gămălie, G. and M. Mustaţă. (2006). The attack of anobiids on books from the ecclesiastic patrimony. European Journal of Science and Theology 2(2), 69-81.
- ^ Hawkeswood, T., et al. (2009). Anobium jacquelinae sp. nov., a new wood-boring beetle (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) from Baltic amber. Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine G It Ent 12 181-87.
External links
- Toskina, I. N. (2004). About genera Anobium Fabricius, 1775, and Cacotemnus LeConte, 1861 (Coleoptera: Anobiidae).[permanent dead link] Russian Entomological Journal 13(1-2) 53-68.