Since the publication of Atlas of Stored-Product Insects and Mites in 2013 (Atlas) and Stored-Product Insect Resource in 2009 (Res), three family or order level changes have become widely accepted based upon morphological and genetic evidence. Family Bruchidae became the subfamily Bruchinae in the family Chrysomelidae (Lingafelter and Pakaluk 1997), Family Ptinidae includes two families as the sub-families Anobiinae and Ptininae (Bell et al. 2012), and Orders Phthiraptera and Psocoptera were placed in the order Psocodea (Yoshizawa and Lienhard 2010). An additional 953 sources of stored product insect infestation records are available at: https://storedproductinsects.com/new-species/sources-of-additional-infestation-records/
Other updates and revisions
Atlas Ch 2, p. 14. Life history: Ali et al 2011, Patel and Chari 1977 is for Attagenus fasciatus (Thunberg 1795) on p. 15 and not Araecerus fasciculatus (DeGeer 1775).
Atlas Ch 6, p. 539. Delete Ewing 1912 which is on life history Cheyletus eruditus.
Atlas Ch 6, p. 542. Add Ewing 1912 which is on life history of Cheyletus eruditus.
Atlas Ch 6, p. 544. Ashfaq et al. 2011 should be Bashir et al. 2011.
Atlas Ch 6, p. 552. Macrocheles matrius (Hull 1925) Distribution: Australia should be Austria.
Atlas Ch 6, p. 563. The species name Tyrophagus dimidiatus Hermann 1804 has been suppressed until acarologists can decide which species would best bear the name (Melville, R. V. 1985).
Atlas Ch 6, p. 569. Bashir et al. 2011 replaces Ashfaq et al. 2011.
Res Ch 1, p. 9. Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer 1797), Common name: Buffalo Worm
Res Ch 1, p. 33. Bruchidius dorsalis (Fåhraeus 1939) is now Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhraeus 1939), originally Bruchus dorsalis Fåhraeus 1939, Common name: East Asian seed beetle, Distribution (3): As: China, India, Japan, Taiwan; iE: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Georgia, Italy (Rome 1989), France, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkestan, Ukraine, iSA: Argentina (Nikulina and Martynov 2022), Commodities (2): Chinese traditional medicine, honey locust seed, Biology: Chen et al. 2021, 2023, 2025, György and Tuda 2020, Lezhenina and Vasilieva 2020, Li et al. 2014, Liao et al. 2025, Shimada et al. 2001
Res Ch 1, p. 51. Cephalonomia mateui Benoit 1967, Taxonomy: Col., Bethylidae should be Hym., Bethylidae.
Res Ch 1, p. 51. Cephalonomia stephanoderis Betrem 1961, Taxonomy: Col., Bethylidae should be Hym., Bethylidae.
Res Ch 1, p. 51. Cephalonomia tarsalis (Ashmead 1893), Taxonomy: Col., Bethylidae should be Hym., Bethylidae.
Res Ch 1, Ch 1, p. 51. Cephalonomia waterstoni (Gahan 1931), Taxonomy: Col., Bethylidae should be Hym., Bethylidae.
Res Ch 1, p. 61. Cryptamorpha desjardinsi (Guérin-Méneville 1844) commonly used but proper scientific name should be Cryptamorpha desjardinsii, originally named Psammoechus desjardinsii.
Res Ch 1, p. 93. Glyptocolastes texanus Ashmead 1900, Taxonomy: Col., Braconidae should be Hym., Braconidae.
Res Ch 1, p. 117. Megabruchidius tonkineus (Pic 1904), originally Bruchus tonkineus Pic, 1904, Distribution (4): iAf:South Africa, As: Vietnam (Tonkin); iE: Bulgaria (Plovdiv), France (Montpellier), Greece (Tessalonikis), Germany (Chemnitz), Hungary (Budapest), iO: Australia, iSA: Argentina (Carmen de Areco), Chile (Santiago de Chile), Biology: Salgado and Martin. 2023
Res p. Ch 1, 178. Theocolax elegans (Westwood 1874) Taxonomy: Col., Pteromalidae should be Hym., Pteromalidae
Res Ch 1, p. 178 Theocolax formiciformis Westwood 1832, Taxonomy: Col., Pteromalidae should be Hym., Pteromalidae
Res Ch 1, p. 199. Zophobas atratus (Fabricius, 1775) originally as Tenebrio atratus Fabricius, 1775, syn. Zophobas morio (Fabricius 1977) originally as Helops morio Fabricius, 1777, see Bousquet et al. 2018, Common name: Giant mealworm, Superworm, Distribution (2): C: Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles (including among others Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Barbados), Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, NA: USA (CA FL) Mexico. Zaphobas morio (Fabricius 1776) should be Zophobas morio (Fabricius 1776).
Res Ch 8 p. 28. Start page for Gokhale and Srivastava 1975 is 121 instead 12.
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