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Confused flour beetle, the Glossary

The confused flour beetle (Tribolium confusum), a type of darkling beetle known as a flour beetle, is a globally found, common pest insect known for attacking and infesting stored flour and grain.^[1]

24 relations: Autosome, Beauveria bassiana, Cannibalism, Cytoplasmic incompatibility, Darkling beetle, Destructive flour beetle, Diatomaceous earth, Dried fruit, Drosophila, Flour, Flour beetle, Grain, Holepyris sylvanidis, Home-stored product entomology, Kin selection, Mold, Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val, Pyrethrin, Red flour beetle, Rice, Spermatophore, Spinosad, Stabilizing selection, Wolbachia.
Storage pests
Stored-product pests

Autosome

An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.

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Beauveria bassiana

Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the group of entomopathogenic fungi.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.

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Cytoplasmic incompatibility

Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is a mating incompatibility reported in many arthropod species that is caused by intracellular parasites such as Wolbachia.

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Darkling beetle

Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.

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Destructive flour beetle

The destructive or dark flour beetle (Tribolium destructor), is one of the species of darkling beetle known generally as flour beetles. Confused flour beetle and destructive flour beetle are Household pest insects, Storage pests and Tenebrioninae.

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Diatomaceous earth

Diatomaceous earth, diatomite, celite or kieselgur/kieselguhr is a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock that can be crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder.

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Dried fruit

Dried fruit is fruit from which the majority of the original water content has been removed either naturally, through sun drying, or through the use of specialized dryers or dehydrators.

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Drosophila

Drosophila is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit.

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Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.

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Flour beetle

Flour beetles are members of several darkling beetle genera including Tribolium and Tenebrio. Confused flour beetle and Flour beetle are Storage pests.

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Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.

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Holepyris sylvanidis

Holepyris sylvanidis, is a species of hymenopteran parasitoid in the family Bethylidae.

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Home-stored product entomology

Home-stored product entomology is the study of insects that infest foodstuffs stored in the home. Confused flour beetle and home-stored product entomology are Household pest insects and stored-product pests.

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Kin selection

Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.

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Mold

A mold or mould is one of the structures that certain fungi can form.

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Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val

Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin Du Val (9 July 1828, Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales – 5 July 1862, Clamart) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

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Pyrethrin

The pyrethrins are a class of organic compounds normally derived from Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium that have potent insecticidal activity by targeting the nervous systems of insects.

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Red flour beetle

The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. Confused flour beetle and red flour beetle are Household pest insects, Storage pests and Tenebrioninae.

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Rice

Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.

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Spermatophore

A spermatophore or sperm ampulla is a capsule or mass containing spermatozoa created by males of various animal species, especially salamanders and arthropods, and transferred in entirety to the female's ovipore during reproduction.

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Spinosad

Spinosad is an insecticide based on chemical compounds found in the bacterial species Saccharopolyspora spinosa.

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Stabilizing selection

Stabilizing selection (not to be confused with negative or purifying selection) is a type of natural selection in which the population mean stabilizes on a particular non-extreme trait value.

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Wolbachia

Wolbachia is a genus of gram-negative bacteria that can either infect many species of arthropod as an intracellular parasite, or act as a mutualistic microbe in filarial nematodes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_flour_beetle

Also known as Confused flour, Tribolium confusum.