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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Carpet Beetles (Dermestidae) » Anthrenini » Thaumaglossa » Thaumaglossa americana
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Carpet Beetle - Thaumaglossa americana
Copyright © 2016 Robert Lord Zimlich

Carpet Beetle - Thaumaglossa americana
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
May 19, 2016
Size: ~3mm
Don't recall having seen this one, with "Flying Nun" antennae.
UPDATE: Collected specimen, if needed (#50-1225814)

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Carpet Beetle - Thaumaglossa americana Carpet Beetle - Thaumaglossa americana
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 20 May, 2016 - 1:15am
Last updated 2 December, 2020 - 10:41am

=!!!=
… v belov, 2 July, 2016 - 6:51pm login or register to post comments

Thaumaglossa americana (Jayne)
Det. Andreas Herrmann, 2016
… Mike Quinn, 21 May, 2016 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

Moved tent. to Thaumaglossa
must be it! neat one! Even if the genus is correct, wouldn't move to the species currently on BG without confirmation

Moved from Carpet Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 20 May, 2016 - 9:10am login or register to post comments

 
Mike Quinn ...
said it's "almost surely Thaumaglossa americana. I'm sending sppm. to Ed Riley at TAMU for confirmation. Thanks for birddogging it.
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… Robert Lord Zimlich, 20 May, 2016 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

Moved, another weird Dermestid...will snoop around
Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 20 May, 2016 - 4:32am login or register to post comments

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