khapran.
/ˈkɑːprə/ In full, khapra beetle. A small, brownish-black beetle, Trogoderma granarium, of the family Dermestidæ, native to India but widely found elsewhere as a pest of stored grain.
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1896 E. C. Cotes in Indian Museum Notes III. 119 It [sc. a dermestid beetle] is known as Kapra in the Delhi bazaar, where it is said sometimes to destroy as much as six or seven per cent. of wheat stored in godowns.
1928 Bull. Entomol. Res. 18 251 (title) Investigations on the control of the Khapra beetle.
1955 Hilgardia XXIV. 1 The khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts, was first identified in the United States in stored wheat and barley..in October, 1953.
1959 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 52 313/1 Each food sample was placed in a plastic cell with a single khapra-beetle egg.
1971 New Scientist 27 May 503/2 Khapra beetles may be baited by merely suspending large pieces of jute fabric on top of the infested grain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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