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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Carpet Beetles (Dermestidae) » Anthrenini » Carpet Beetles (Anthrenus) » Subgenus Anthrenus (Anthrenus Subgenus Anthrenus) » Anthrenus lepidus
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Carpet Beetle - Anthrenus lepidus
Copyright © 2009 Kevin Hall

Carpet Beetle - Anthrenus lepidus
Auburn, Placer County, California, USA
April 5, 2009
Anthrenus lepidus?
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Contributed by Kevin Hall on 6 April, 2009 - 11:56am
Last updated 3 December, 2014 - 7:17pm

Wow, Kevin...
...that makes two good ones in one day! Any more nice carpet beetles up your sleeve?
… Harsi S. Parker, 6 April, 2009 - 1:08pm login or register to post comments

 
carpet beetles
Hmmm...am I missing something here? Why are folks so please with a couple types of carpet beetles?

Side note: both the A. sophonisba and A. lepidus had this ?defense mechanism? of pulling in their legs and acting like they were dead if I disturbed them on the leaf or flower. I even lost one or two falling into the grass while trying to take their photos as they were pulling that trick.
… Kevin Hall, 6 April, 2009 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Well...
If you look through the 7 pages or so of images for the Anthrenus genus you will see that the vast majority of images are of the Var*ied Carpet Beetle (which is all that I ever seem to see!). The A. sopho*nisba image that you posted was only the 2nd one submitted to the guide thus far... I don't have a working background in entomology and therefore don't really know which species are "good finds". I guess my own internal measure is usually how many other images of the species have already been posted by others.

Oh, and I too have seen that defense mechanism employed many times. (*grin*)
… Harsi S. Parker, 6 April, 2009 - 4:57pm login or register to post comments

lepidus indeed
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… v belov, 6 April, 2009 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

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