ALL ABOUT THE KHARPA BEETLE
BY: JONATHAN HARVEY
SOME INFO ON THIS BUG
The Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium), also called cabinet beetle, which originated in South Asia, is one of the world’s most destructive pests of grain products and seeds. Adult beetles are brownish and 1.6–3 mm long. Immature larvae are up to 5 millimeters long and are covered in dense, reddish-brown hair. The eggs of the khapra beetle are cylindrical with one end more rounded and the other more pointed, about 0.7 mm long and 0.25 mm broad, weighing about 0.02 mg. The pointy end has a number of spine-like projections.The eggs are initially a milky white but over several hours turn a pale yellowish color
THIS IS THE BEETLES CLASSIFICATION.
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T. granarium
Trogoderma granarium
Everts, 1898
THIS DESCRIBES WHY THE BUGS HAVE THESE QUALITIES, THATS WHY THEY WERE IN THOSE KINGDOMS
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia .
An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda, and include the insects, arachnids, myriapods, and crustaceans
Insects are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae.
Beetles are a group of insects which are biologically classified in the order Coleoptera
Dermestidae are a family of Coleoptera that are commonly referred to as skin beetles.
Trogoderma is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae
T. granarium is the species