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Latheticus oryzae (common name long headed flour beetle) is a species of beetle.
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| Illustration of Latheticus oryzae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Genus: | Latheticus |
| Species: | L. oryzae
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| Binomial name | |
| Latheticus oryzae Waterhouse, 1880[1]
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Description
editThis beetle is light brown in color with elongated body measuring 2-3 mm. It resembles Tribolium casteneum..
Diet
editBoth adult and grub feed on a milled product and can exist as a secondary infestation in stored grains. It attacks cereals, flour, packaged food, rice and rice products.
Reproduction
editThe female lays 400 white eggs on grains.
References
edit- ^ Waterhouse, Charles O. 1880. Descriptions of a new genus and species of heteromerous Coleoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Being a Continuation of the 'Magazine of Botany and Zoology', and of Louden and Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History', Series 5 5(26): 147-148.