Xestobium rufovillosum (species)
Esquema
Jerarquía
Eukaryota (domain) > Animalia (kingdom) > Arthropoda (phylum) > Hexapoda (subphylum) > Insecta (class) > Coleoptera (order) > Anobiidae (family) > Xestobium (genus)
Descripción
Members of a species of woodboring beetle that may live in rafters of wooden structures. The common name derives from the noise made by the beetle: to attract mates, it makes a tapping or ticking sound by bumping its head or jaws against the sides of the tunnels it bores in old furniture and wood, which was heard by those sitting up with dying people on quiet, sleepless nights, thus believed to forecast or accompany an approaching death.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- 紅毛竊蠹 (種) [zh]
- hóng máo qiè dù (species) [zh]
- hong mao qie du (species) [zh]
- hung mao ch'ieh tu (species) [zh]
- deathwatch beetle (species) [en]
- deathwatch beetles (species) [en]
- beetles, deathwatch (species) [en]
- death-watch beetles (species) [en]
- death watch beetles (species) [en]
- deathwatches (species) [en]
- death-watches (species) [en]
- 粉茶柱蟲 [zh]