SUMMARY Insects Pests of Stored Products and By-Products Are

Supplementary Material for ZANUNCIO, JOSÉ COLA, WAGNER DE SOUZA TAVARES, LÊDA RITA D’ANTONINO FARONI, CARLOS FREDERICO WILCKEN AND JOSÉ EDUARDO SERRÃO− Lasioderma serricorne (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) in Stored Matricaria recutita (Asteraceae) in Brazil. Florida Entomologist 97(2) (June 2014) at http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/entomologist/browse Corresponding author: José Cola Zanuncio Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa 36570-900, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil Tel.: (+55) 31 3899 2924. Fax: (+55) 31 3899 2642; E-mail: [email protected] SUMMARY Insects pests of stored products and by-products are extending their feeding preferences to new items. We report for the first time in Brazil the feeding and reproduction of the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne F. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) on stored chamomile, Matricaria recutita L. (Asteraceae). One intact package (10 cm wide × 15 cm long) of M. recutita infested by L. serricorne was purchased in a supermarket in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In this sample this insect had fed on the dried parts (inflorescences and rods), which made the product unﬁt for human consumption. This 20 g sample included 101 live and 4 dead Lasioderma serricorne. Circumstantial evidence suggested that the infested material was probably harvested from an infested field in Apr 2013 and packaged with L. serricorne eggs, and that these had developed into the adults found in the package. Key words: Asterales, Bostrichiformia, Bostrichoidea, chamomile, medicinal plant RESUMO Insetos praga de produtos e subprodutos armazenados têm se alimentado de novos itens. O objetivo é relatar o besouro-do-fumo, Lasioderma serricorne F. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) se alimentando e reproduzindo em camomila, Matricaria recutita L. (Asteraceae) armazenada no Brasil. Um pacote intacto (10 cm de largura × 15 cm de comprimento) de M. recutita, infestado por L. serricorne, foi comprado em um supermercado em Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Este inseto se alimentou das partes secas (inflorescências e hastes) dessa planta, o que tornou o produto impróprio para consumo. Lasioderma serricorne se alimentou e reproduziu em M. recutita armazenada em embalagem plástica no Brasil. Palavras Chave: Asterales, Bostrichiformia, Bostrichoidea, camomila, planta medicinal C Suppl. Fig. 1. Plant (A) (source: Ivar Leidus); package intact (10 cm width × 15 cm length) (B - verse) (source: second author) of Matricaria recutita (Asteraceae) and dried product (C) (Source: Feen). .

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