LABOULBENIALES - Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos

Necrobia Olivierruficollis (Fabricius) 1 Cadaver 4 04/11/03 C4 4.XI.03Brufipes (De Geer) 2Cadaver 1Cadaver 509/09/0304/11/03C1 9.IX.03AC5 4.XI.03violaceus (Linnaeus) 2 Cadaver 7 26/05/04 C7 26/05/04 33.2.8. FAMILY CURCULI ONIDAESnout beeltes encompass the largest animal family, with over 40.000 species.Characteristics are the distinctive long snout and geniculate antennae withsmall clubs.Curculionids feed on plants; most species are associated with a narrow rangeof hosts, in many cases a single species. The reproduction of these beetlesoccurs in one single leaf, from deposition of the eggs (in the midrib, exceptRhamphus, whose eggs are deposited in the leaf blade) to pupation of thelarvae and maturation.Table XXVII: Family Curculionidae from cadavers in the Meerdaal Forest.Order ColeopteraSuborder PolyphagaInfraorder CucujiformiaSuperfamily CurculionoideaFamily Curculionidae LatreilleSubfamily BrachycerinaeSpecies # specimens Location DateCollectionreferenceSitona Germarlineatus (Linnaeus) 1 Cadaver 2 16/04/04 C2 16.4.04Strophosoma Billbergcaptitatum (De Geer) 1 Cadaver 6 26/05/04 C6 26.5.4BJ 2melanogrammum (Forster) 2Cadaver 5Cadaver 6200426/05/04NICC2C6 26.5.4BJ 23.2.9. FAMILY DERMESTIDAEAdult skin beetles have round oval shaped bodies covered in scales or setae.The (usually) clubbed antennae fit into deep grooves.Dermestids have a wide variety of habitats and most species are scavengersof animal or plant material, such as:Animal cadavers;Feathers;Dead insects;Pollen;Nests of mammals, birds, bees or wasps;Egg cases of mantids (Dutch: bidsprinkhanen) (Thaumaglossa sp.);Pests of grain (Trogroderma sp.).Dermestids are important in forensic entomology, since the arrival of specificspecies to carrion occurs in a predictable succession. Dermestes maculatus isknown to arrive five to eleven days after death (RICHARDS & GOFF, 1997).Members of this family are also used in museums to clean animal skeletons, asthey eat all the flesh of skulls and bones.P a g e | 61