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Lead Cable severely damaged by Ptinus tectus Boieldieu (Coleoptera, Ptinidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

E. A. J. Duffy
E. A. J. Duffy
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History).
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An account is given of damage in Kent to a lead cable and its drum by larvae of Ptinus tectus Boield. The original infestation resulted from the accumulation of discarded food in the drum hub. The mature larvae, in order to pupate, bored into the hub of the drum and the sheath of the cable, thus producing innumerable excavations and some perforations in the sheath of several hundred feet of cable.

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Original Articles
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , May 1953 , pp. 83 - 84
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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