powder-post beetle

English

Lyctoxylon dentatum

Noun

powder-post beetle (plural powder-post beetles)

Any of a group of seventy species of woodboring beetles classified in the insect subfamily Lyctinae.

See also

powder-post termite (Cryptotermes brevis)

Further reading

powder-post beetle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lyctinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Lyctinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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