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Bamboo borer

Dinoderus minutus (Fabricius, 1775)

Status not recordedbeetles

The bamboo borer (Dinoderus minutus) is a species in the family Bostrichidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about the bamboo borer

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the bamboo borer live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The bamboo borer is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the bamboo borer as introduced in 10 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Australiainvasive
  2. Austria
  3. Denmark
  4. Ecuador
  5. France
  6. Japan
  7. Russia
  8. Sweden
  9. United States
  10. Venezuela

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the bamboo borer endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the bamboo borer classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyBostrichidae
  6. genusDinoderus
  7. SpeciesDinoderus minutus (Fabricius, 1775)

Synonyms Apate minutus

Other names and names in other languages (14)
  • Bamboo powderpost beetleEnglish
  • BambusbohrerGerman
  • Foreur du bambouFrench
  • チビタケナガシンクイJapanese
  • bambusborerNorwegian Bokmål
  • BamboesnuitkeverDutch
  • Динодерус бамбуковыйRussian
  • 竹蠹Chinese
  • Капюшонник бамбуковыйRussian
  • 对竹长蠹Chinese
  • 對竹長蠹Chinese
  • 小竹长蠹Chinese
  • 竹竿粉长蠹Chinese
  • 竹长蠹Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the bamboo borer

Other species in the same genus Dinoderus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the bamboo borer live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the bamboo borer for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the bamboo borer an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the bamboo borer as invasive in 1 country: Australia. It lists it as introduced in 10 in all.

What kind of animal is the bamboo borer?

The bamboo borer (Dinoderus minutus) belongs to the family Bostrichidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Bamboo borer (Dinoderus minutus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/dinoderus-minutus

MLA

“Bamboo borer (Dinoderus minutus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/dinoderus-minutus.

BibTeX
@misc{dinoderus_minutus_2026,
  title = {Bamboo borer (Dinoderus minutus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/dinoderus-minutus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}