Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797) Colydium castaneum Herbst, 1797: 282. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, CETRAV in Saraoutou, 23-28.X.2006, at light, leg. L. Soldati, 1 ♂ (MNHN). DISTRIBUTION. — Tribolium castaneum is a cosmopolitan species and one of the most important stored product pests around the world. It is known to infest the following commodities: barley, bran, cacao, ginger, maize, millet, manioc, nutmeg, peanut, pepper, rice, sorghum, tapioca and yam (Delobel & Tran 1993). This species can also damage entomological collections.

Published as part of Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, pp. 305-317 in Zoosystema 34 (2) on page 308, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a8, http://zenodo.org/record/5165431