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Immature Stages
of Cucujidae
Detailed information on
immature stages of Cucujidae is being acquired. However, Sheppard (1936) found that Cryptolestes ferrugineus
Steph., which feeds on whole or milled grain, sometimes is predaceous on
other insects of a scavenger on their dead bodies. The highest oviposition rate was from females fed only on
angoumois grain moth eggs, and larval development was most rapid when insect
food was available. Clausen (1940)
discussed the Passandridae, which is not included in the Cucujidae. He noted that Fiske (1905) observed a Catogenus rufus F. In which the larvae are true external parasitoids
of the pupae of some cerambycid borers and of those of the braconid parasitoids
which attack the same hosts. Scalidia is also reported to
develop parasitically. References: Please refer to <biology.ref.htm>, [Additional references may be found at: MELVYL Library ] |