Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Teapot Bus Stop Biscuit Beetle

Biscuit Beetle


Larder Invaders! Not mine thankfully, but I was called in as consultant entomologist (!) to identify these wee beasties munching their way through someone's house. 4mm long but I was a bit stumped as to what they were, not Tribolium or a Dermestid of some sort which is what I was expecting. Someone kindly pointed me at the Biscuit Beetle, Stegobium paniceum - antenna with three club-like segments at the tip, (c.f. Lasioderma serricorne - antennae with many serrations, much weaker punctures on the surface of the elytra, eyes easier to see from above, different shape of pronotum).

Biscuit Beetle


Look at those eyebrows!

Teapot Bus Stop Biscuit Beetle