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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Carpet Beetles (Dermestidae) » Dermestes » subgenus Dermestinus (Dermestes subgenus Dermestinus) » Dermestes carnivorus
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Dermestes - Dermestes carnivorus
Copyright © 2010 margarethe brummermann

Dermestes - Dermestes carnivorus
Picture Rocks, NW of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, USA
November 15, 2010

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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 23 November, 2010 - 11:06pm
Last updated 6 March, 2017 - 7:20pm

looks like D. carnivorus F. in A. Hermann's gallery
Moved tentatively from Dermestes.
… v belov, 24 November, 2010 - 12:46am login or register to post comments

 
now i'm pretty sure this is it
the funny thing is, despite the alleged cosmopolitan range and strictly synanthropic ways, yours seems to be the only image of this sp. online except the one on Andreas Hermann's site
… v belov, 24 November, 2010 - 8:29am login or register to post comments

 
I wasn't going to tell
but I found it in my kitchen in an oven mitten. But it seems to have been the only one. I'm checking..Well, anything for science
… margarethe brummermann, 24 November, 2010 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

 
that's the spirit!
… v belov, 24 November, 2010 - 8:59am login or register to post comments

 
I've found one more!
kitchen window sill. Synanthrophic all right. 11 years since the last one. Must be an infestation
… margarethe brummermann, 12 September, 2021 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

looks intriguing
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… v belov, 24 November, 2010 - 12:14am login or register to post comments

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