Shipyard beetle

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Shipyard beetle
Saw-horned shipyard beetle (Hylecoetus dermestoides)

Saw-horned shipyard beetle ( Hylecoetus dermestoides )

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Beetle (Coleoptera)
Subordination : Polyphaga
Partial order : Cucujiformia
Superfamily : Lymexyloidea
Family : Shipyard beetle
Scientific name
Lymexylidae
Fleming , 1821
Shipyard beetle ( Lymexylon navale )

The shipyard beetles (Lymexylidae) represent a family of beetles (Coleoptera).

features

The beetles reach a length of 6 to 18 millimeters and have elongated, cylindrical bodies, in which the cover wings do not close completely and thus leave part of the abdomen uncovered. There is a sexual dimorphism between the two sexes . The males have large, peculiarly bushy branched maxillary palps (jaw palpas), in addition the females have a different body shape, size and color.

The larvae live in trees that are still alive or that have just been felled, either eating the wood itself or mushrooms that they grow in their feeding passages. They can cause great damage to trees and also to wood stocks, wooden houses and wooden ships .

Systematics

The beetles are distributed worldwide with around 70 species, of which only three species occur in Europe .

credentials

  1. ↑ The often used form "Lymexylonidae" is wrong.
  2. ↑ Lymexylidae. Fauna Europaea, accessed November 9, 2006 .

literature

  • Jiří Zahradník : Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. An identification book for biologists and nature lovers. Parey, Hamburg et al. 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 .
  • Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica - The beetles of the German Empire. Volume 3 p. 299, KG Lutz, Stuttgart 1911
  • Edmund Reitter : Fauna Germanica. The beetles of the German Reich (= digital library . 134). Neusatz and facsimile of the 5-volume edition Stuttgart 1908 to 1916. Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89853-534-7 .

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