<documentid="2E3CA3BECC6CC63F2BEFC0F79DB2382A"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.4"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="14747112"ID-ZooBank="4B1C253B-95F1-4F55-8EA1-F311AB52A6A2"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1737971982520"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Drăghici, Andreea-Cătălina, Pintilioaie, Alexandru-Mihai, Murariu, Dumitru, Manci, Cosmin-Ovidiu & Ruzzier, Enrico"docDate="2025"docId="03F687B8A32756247F943BA7FF7EF884"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5575.3.4.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5575 (3)"docSource="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.4"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Tribolium (Tribolium) destructor Uyttenboogaart 1933"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="418"masterDocId="FFCFFFC0A32E562D7F033B30FF9EFF98"masterDocTitle="New additions and further records of non-native Coleoptera in Romania"masterLastPageNumber="428"masterPageNumber="409"pageNumber="418"updateTime="1737973117127"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:affiliationid="7A9914D414A5773D20C497B317B94886">“ Grigore Antipa ” National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff Road no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania & University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Splaiul Independenței 91 - 95, Bucharest, R- 050095, Romania</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="85FD22F60242A8A8BA4E3389BF39656A">Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research on the Marine Environment and Marine Terrestrial Atmosphere, Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea Marine Biological Station, Nicolae Titulescu str. no. 163, Agigea, Constanţa, Romania & Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Biology, “ Alexandru Ioan Cuza ” University of IaȘi, Carol I Avenue, 20 A, 700505 IaȘi, Romania</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="B14633CBE44CDDED01AA9A07A3579660">Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale G. Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy</mods:affiliation>
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—collected in Bârnova Forest, 46.989703°N/27.687814°E, 21.V.2013,
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). For a more detailed overview of the global distribution in Europe, see
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, with large punctures centrally on the pronotum and in the elytral striae, pronotum widest at half-length to epistoma subangulate at the eye and small punctures in
<bibRefCitationid="EFCE4B5FA32756247E2F3EAAFE53FA2C"author="Gorham, J. R."box="[300,461,1434,1460]"pageId="9"pageNumber="418"refId="ref11318"refString="Gorham, J. R. (1991) Insect and mite pests in food: An Illustrated Key. Vol. 1. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 767 pp."type="book"year="1991">Gorham 1991</bibRefCitation>
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). It has been found in various environments and can equally colonize anthropic and natural habitats (
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;
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), thus facilitating its establishment (
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). The species appears to have evolved as a saprophytic insect and is known to occur naturally under the bark of trees, in dead wood, and occasionally in the nests of some Hymenoptera (
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), so long-distance spread relies on human transport in grain (
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reported that olefins are present in defensive secretions, and
<bibRefCitationid="EFCE4B5FA32756247ED83DA6FDEAF928"author="Hasan, M."box="[475,628,1686,1712]"pageId="9"pageNumber="418"pagination="213 - 218"refId="ref11583"refString="Hasan, M. (2001) Time-course mortality and radiosensitivity indices in gamma-irradiated Tribolium spp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Insect Science and Its Application, 21 (3), 213 - 218. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1742758400007591"type="journal article"year="2001">Hasan (2001)</bibRefCitation>
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