"grain beetle" meaning in English

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          "taxonomic": "Cryptolestes pusillus",
          "word": "flat grain beetle"
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          "taxonomic": "Ahasverus advena",
          "word": "foreign grain beetle"
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          "taxonomic": "Oryzaephilus mercator",
          "word": "merchant grain beetle"
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          "taxonomic": "Cryptolestes ferrugineus",
          "word": "rusty grain beetle"
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          "taxonomic": "Oryzaephilus surinamensis",
          "word": "saw-toothed grain beetle"
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          "alt": "Cathartus quadricollis",
          "word": "square-necked grain beetle"
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          "text": "1987, Gennadiĭ Alekseevich Zakladnoĭ, Vera Flegontovna Ratanova, Stored Grain Pests and Their Control, Oxonian Press, page 41,\nFor instance, the saw-toothed grain beetle is commonly found, and prefers to develop, in dry fruits and naturally, its occurrence is mainly limited to fruit growing regions. The rusty grain beetle prefers crushed grain and therefore, usually inhabits grain mills and is widely distributed."
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          "ref": "1995, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, David W. Hagstrum, “4: Sampling”, in Bhadriraju Subramanyam, David W. Hagstrum, editors, Integrated Management of Insects in Stored Products, page 159",
          "text": "Taylor's power law overestimated the variance for the flat grain beetle and squarenosed fungus beetle (Lathridius minutus [L.]), and underestimated the variance for foreign grain beetle, larger black flour beetle, rusty grain beetle, and hairy fungus beetle.",
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          "text": "Adults (0.3 cm in length) of the sawtoothed grain beetle and the merchant grain beetle are very similar in appearance to each other but can be easily distinguished from other food pest insects by the six sawlike projections on each side of the prothorax.",
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        "Any of several beetles from the families Silvanidae and Laemophloeidae that infest grains and grain products."
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          "word": "flour beetle"
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