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1 September 2011 First Record of the Pit-Prop Beetle Hexarthrum exiguum (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Turkey
H. Huseyin Cebeci, Klaus Hellrigl, Paul F. Whitehead
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Abstract

The pit-prop beetle, Hexarthrum exiguum (Boheman), is reported for the first time from Turkey where a population was found colonizing skirting boards (baseboards) in Istanbul. The feeding of adults and larvae caused the skirting boards to disintegrate.

H. Huseyin Cebeci, Klaus Hellrigl, and Paul F. Whitehead "First Record of the Pit-Prop Beetle Hexarthrum exiguum (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Turkey," Florida Entomologist 94(3), 404-406, (1 September 2011). https://doi.org/10.1653/024.094.0304
Published: 1 September 2011
KEYWORDS
Cossoninae
new to Turkey
weevil pest
wood boring insect
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