Necrobia violacea

Necrobia • Cleridae • misc. Coleoptera families • Coleoptera • Insects (plant pests) • pests-diseases-weeds

Necrobia violacea (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Michael C. Thomas, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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Necrobia violacea (Linnaeus) - (black-legged ham beetle)

The beetle infests smoked meet products.

Vernacular names
• Deutsch:	Blauer Kolbenkäfer Blauer Schinkenkäfer
• English:	black-legged ham beetle

Publications covering Necrobia violacea

Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde, Pflanzenschutz, Umweltschutz (1994) 67, 47-60
Hermann Levinson and Anna Levinson (1994)
Origin of grain storage and insect species consuming desiccated food

Environmental Entomology (1987) 16, 168-177
Robert R. Parmenter and James A. MacMahon (1987)
Early successional patterns of arthropod recolonization on reclaimed strip mines in southwestern Wyoming: The ground-dwelling beetle fauna (Coleoptera)