| European lyctus beetle | |
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| European lyctus beetle | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Bostrichidae |
| Subfamily: | Lyctinae |
| Genus: | Lyctus |
| Species: | L. linearis |
| Binomial name | |
| Lyctus linearis (Goeze, 1877) |
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European lyctus beetle (Lyctus linearis) is a wood-boring beetle in the family Bostrichidae (formerly in the family Lyctidae, which is now a subfamily of Bostrichidae). The larvae of this beetle live primarily in dry trunks of oak.