Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792)

Drăghici, Andreea-Cătălina, Pintilioaie, Alexandru-Mihai, Murariu, Dumitru, Manci, Cosmin-Ovidiu & Ruzzier, Enrico, 2025, New additions and further records of non-native Coleoptera in Romania, Zootaxa 5575 (3), pp. 409-428 : 411

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5575.3.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4B1C253B-95F1-4F55-8EA1-F311AB52A6A2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14747108
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F687B8-A32C-562F-7F94-3DE9FBDDF877
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792)
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Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792) View in CoL

Materials examined. Mehedinți County: Izvoru Frumos (near), 43.9355°N / 27.9952°E, 09. VI GoogleMaps .2023, sandy area, Cosmin-Ovidiu Manci leg. (1 specimen), COMC .

Remarks. Thought to originate from the Indian subcontinent (Edde 2012), it is now a cosmopolitan species ( Borowski 2007; Nardi & Mifsud 2015) and one of the most serious pests in grain storage ( Javanmard et al. 2023). The species is polyphagous on different grains, including starch-based substrates, and on wood packaging ( Hendrival & Aryani 2019). In Romania, it was first recorded in 1975 ( Teodorescu et al. 2006).