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Dermestid - Anthrenus museorum - female
Copyright © 2014 tom murray

Dermestid - Anthrenus museorum - Female
Addison, Addison County, Vermont, USA
June 18, 2014
Taken with a beating sheet from a flowering bush.
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Contributed by tom murray on 19 June, 2014 - 5:45pm
Last updated 20 December, 2015 - 8:23pm

Anthrenus (Florilinus) sp., female
ID'd from three female specimens, one of which will be selected as photo-voucher. Thanks Tom.

I can't confirm this is A. museorum, as I don't know if the females of museorum & castaneae can be reliably told apart.
… Brad Barnd, 20 December, 2015 - 7:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from Carpet Beetles.
… v belov, 19 June, 2014 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

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