Adults do not feed and are short-lived. They run and fly quickly. Common in grain warehouses, mills and food processing plants. Small, flattened and whitish, antennas like long hairs. Eggs are laid randomly over the surfaces.
Nymphs have similar appearance to adults, but smaller and paler.
Adults are long lived, feed on residues and run quickly. In general, its presence is due to bad warehouse conditions. Widely disseminated, attacking cereals and by-products, oilseed mixtures, dried fruits, seeds and oilseeds. Major pest under the phytosanitary viewpoint for importers and exporters. Oval and hairy, brown-reddish insect.