Family:
Trogossitidae (gnawing beetles)
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Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga > Superfamily: Cleroidea
Small to medium beetles,
elongate and flattened. The larvae live under bark or in the tunnels of
wood-boring insects, probably feeding on them. Tenebroides mauritanicus
infests stored grain and cereals and also preys on other pest in the grains.
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