Common Furniture Beetle
Anobium punctatum
The common furniture beetle or common house borer is a woodboring beetle originally from Europe but now distributed worldwide. In the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it. Adult Anobium punctatum measure 2.7–4.5 millimetres (0.11–0.18 in) in length. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk's cowl.
- Scientific name
- Anobium punctatum
- Family
- Ptinidae