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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 undulatus

Species Dermestes undulatus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Works Cited
Dermestes talpinus from dead skunk - Dermestes undulatus Dermestes talpinus from dead skunk - Dermestes undulatus unknown bug - Dermestes undulatus Dermestes talpinus? - Dermestes undulatus Carpet Beetle - Dermestes undulatus - female Carpet Beetle - Dermestes undulatus - female Hide and Tallow Dermestid ? - Dermestes undulatus Dermestes undulatus? - Dermestes undulatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Dermestidae (Carpet Beetles)
Genus Dermestes
No Taxon (subgenus Dermestinus)
Species undulatus (Dermestes undulatus)
Explanation of Names
Dermestes undulatus Brahm 1790
Size
5–7 mm(1)
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (NB‒ON to NJ‒WV, CO)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Habitat
mostly outdoors, on carrion; uncommon(1)
Remarks
stored-food pest in some locations in continental Europe(1)
earliest record in our area: ON before 1837(5)
Works Cited
1.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
2.Short-horned bugs (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) introduced to North America
3.Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera
Lehr, P. A., ed. 1988. Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House.
4.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
5.The Derodontidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, and Anobiidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia)
C.J. Majka. 2007. Zootaxa 1573: 1–38.
Contributed by v belov on 6 March, 2014 - 12:28pm
Last updated 11 May, 2024 - 10:51pm

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