Latheticus oryzae Waterhouse 1880

Latheticus oryzae Waterhouse, 1880 Köhler 2009: 109. Note. This adventive, minute species, of South Asian origin (Delobel & Tran 1993) and now cosmopolitan, is mainly found in storage areas containing American wheat and Indian rice. Seemingly—or once—absent from Lorraine (Géhin 1846; Fournel & Géhin 1847; Godron 1863; Soldati 2007), Saarland and Rhineland (Köhler & Klausnitzer 1998; Lillig 1999), it has been introduced into Belgium and the Netherlands (Everts 1903; Thomaes et al. 2025). However, Belgian data suggest that the species has been in decline since the 1950s (Libbrecht 1988) and is now most frequently encountered in the port of Antwerp (Troukens 2009).