Cryptolestes ferrugineus

Order	Coleoptera
Family	Laemophloeidae
Genus	Cryptolestes
Species	Cryptolestes ferrugineus
Common name	Flat Grain Beetle
Genome size
Approximate no. of researchers
Why is it important to sequence this species?	Novel metabolic process
i5K sequencing category?	Agriculture, Systematics
Contact information	David Schlipalius

This species is a pest of stored cereals and has the highest reported resistance to phosphine fumigant of all the insect species so far. It is also a part of a cryptic species complex which comprises several Cryptolestes spp. that require expert taxonomic knowledge to identify.Sequencing this species would greatly accelerate population ecology studies as well as resistance studies.