Scientific Name: Bruchus signaticornis Gylh.

Common Name: Lentil bruchid 

Synonyms 

Mylabris pallidicornis var. signaticornis Baudi; Bruchus pallidicornis var. signaticornis Schilsky; Bruchus pallidicornis Boheman; Mylabris pallidicornis Baudi; Bruchus pallidicornis var. lugens Jacquet; Bruchus signaticornis var. lugens Pic; Bruchus inornatus Kuster; Bruchus pallidicornis var. inornata Baudi; Bruchus pallidicornis var. inornatus Schilsky; Bruchus pallidicornis var. inornatus Pic; Bruchus muticus Fiori; Bruchus signaticornis var. muticus Pic; Bruchus serratus Mulsant & Rey; Bruchus ruficornis Allard

Taxonomic Position

Class: Insecta

Order: Coleoptera

Family: Bruchidae

Genus: Bruchus

Species: Bruchus signaticornis

Geographical distribution

Algeria, Canary Islands, Egypt, Southern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Syria, USA, Yugoslavia

Host Plant

Ceratonia siliqua, Lathyrus sp., Lens esculenta, Vicia atropurpurea, V. cracca, V. ervilia, V. monanthos,

Identification features

• Body and head black to dark brown; head short and broad, densely punctuate, eyes prominent, not sexually dimorphic.
• Antennae red-orange in colour and pronotum about twice as broad as long, with a small and sharp lateral tooth.
• Elytra about 0.25 times as long as broad, with dark brown pubescence, dorsal surface with medial longitudinal band made of whitish hairs and white oblique band in the anterior half.
• Females are similar to male in body sculpture except basal for and 11^th antennal segments are reddish, remaining black.

Detection methods

Samples can be examined with naked eye or under magnifying glass or stereoscopic binocular microscope and by using soft X-ray and seed transparency method hidden infestation can be detected.