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Species Attagenus brunneus


A taxonomic and biological study of species of Attagenini in the United States and Canada
By Beal RS Jr.
Entomologica Americana 45(3): 141-235, 1970

A new genus and species of the tribe Attagenini from the Mojave Desert of California
By Beal RS Jr.
The Coleopterists Bulletin 59(4): 489-492, 2005

Corrections to checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae
By R. S. Beal, Jr.
The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 58, No. 4, p. 580, 2004
Corrections to (1)

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Annotated checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae with revised key to genera
By Beal, R.S.
The Coleopterists Bulletin, 57: 391-404, 2003

A new U.S. and Florida record for Caccoleptus (Bicaccoleptus) kacka Háva, 2009 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae)
By Háva, J. and M.C. Thomas
Insecta Mundi 0237: 1–3, 2012
Online here: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/750/

New genus to keep an eye out for in Florida. Records from Dade and Broward counties.

World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera)
By Jiří Háva
Studie a zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Brandýs n. Labem 2003 Supplementum 1., 2003
Available online here.

A phylogenetic study of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) based on larval morphology
By Kiselyova T., McHugh J.V.
Sys. Entomol. 31: 469–507, 2006
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Molecular systematics and evolution of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) and related families
By Bell K.L., Philips T.K.
Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 165: 88-108, 2012