Abstract
is commonly known as the copra beetle in tropical countries and red-legged ham beetle in the United States. According to Nwana, 1993 and Simmons and Ellington (1925) the red-legged ham beetle is a cosmopolitan pest, causing considerable dam-age to stored commodities such as copra (dried coconut), cheese, dried fish, ham and other products rich in protein content. In India, it is also recorded as a serious pest of cashew nuts (Sengupta et al., 1984). These beetles can subsist on a diet of copra alone but their development is slow; their diet is almost cer-tainly a supplement by predation on other insects and can promote cannibalism when there is a superpopulation (Ashman 1963).
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