1. PaDIL Species Factsheet

Scientific Name: carbonarius Waltl, 1832 (Coleoptera: : Lyctinae: Lyctini)

Common Name powderpost Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/Pest/Main/135679

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2.1. Details Specimen Contact: Museum Victoria - [email protected] Author: Walker, K. Citation: Walker, K. (2006) powderpost Beetle(Lyctus carbonarius)Updated on 8/20/2021 Available online: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au Image Use: Free for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY- NC 4.0)

2.2. URL Live link: http://www.padil.gov.au/pests-and-diseases/Pest/Main/135679

2.3. Facets Status: Exotic species - absent from Australia Group: Commodity Overview: Forestry Commodity Type: Timber Distribution: USA and Canada, Europe and Northern Asia, Mediterranean Basin, Australasian - Oceanian

2.4. Other Names Lyctus planicollis LeConte 1858

2.5. Diagnostic Notes The tribe Lyctini is characterised by:

- Hind coxae distinctly separated - At least the outer two-thirds of each elytron with complete, even or uneven, longitudinal rows of punctures and corresponding hairs - Metathoracic femur relatively slender, nearly club shaped and not compressed

The genus Lyctus is characterised by:

- Body length: 1.5-8.0mm - Pronotum without tubercles, teeth, small lobes or ridges - Frons never with a medium tooth or tubercle - Dorsal vestiture not erect - Both antennal club segments subequal in length but the first is normally shorter than the second - First antennal club segment wider or as wide as second segment - Second antennal club segment ovoid, conoid, ellipsoid or pear shaped - Anterior tibiae not strongly enlarged at the apex - Anterior tibiae acutely produced externally and with a large, curved spine

There are 26 known valid species in this genus.

Diagnostic characteristics of this species include:

- Body length: 2.5-6.0mm - Dorsal surface of pronotum not swollen and rather densely but distinctly punctate.

Source: Graham Goodyer 2008 (unpublished) Identification of Bostrichid beetles to Genus and Species.

Characters useful to distinguish _L. carbonarius_ from other _Lyctus_ species include:

Adult length 4-6mm, colour black-dark brown; pronotum wider than long and punctations distinctly separated; punctations on medium thrid of elytra in fairly distinct rows, punctations on elytra in double rows between ridges, 10th antennal segment wider than long.

The females possess a fringe of long setae on either side of the median line of the fifth sternite; males have a rounded fifth sternite, the apical margin being fringed with setae.

Source:

Hickin, N. (1963). The factor in wood decay. Hutchinson of London.

2.6. Web Links Bugwood network images: http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=383 CSIRO Wood protection: http://www.ffp.csiro.au/BS-TermitesAndWoodProtection.asp European Distribution: http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/species- factsheet.jsp?tab=2&idSpecies=132907&idSpeciesLink=132907 Featured creatures: http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/beetles/s_lyctus_beetle.htm Queensland DPI distribution record: http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/forestry/5035.html Uni. of Florida Extension Sheet: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN559 3. Diagnostic Images

USA. 1966 USA. 1966 Antenna: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Dorsal view: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museums Victoria Museums Victoria

USA. 1966 USA. 1966 Elytra: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Head front: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museums Victoria Museums Victoria

USA. 1966 USA. 1966 Head side: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Lateral view: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museums Victoria Museums Victoria USA. 1966 USA. 1966 Posterior view: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Pronotum: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museums Victoria Museums Victoria

USA. 1966 USA. 1966 Thorax side: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Ventral view: Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker Museums Victoria Museums Victoria

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