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Lyctus brunneus
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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.
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Species: | L. brunneus |
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Lyctus brunneus (Stephens, 1830) | |
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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]