Species Anthrenus (Florilinus) museorum (Linnaeus, 1761)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dermestes museorum Linnaeus, C. 1761. Fauna svecica sistens animalia sveciae regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii [48] + 578 pp. [145].
• Anthrenus muscorum Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp. [39].
• Anthrenus pellio Thunberg, C.P. 1815. Anthreni monographia. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 7: 150-156 [151].
• Anthrenus vagus Gmelin, J.F. 1790. Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Linné, editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Regnum Animalium. Lipsiae : Georg Emanuel Beer Tomus 1(Pars IV. Classis V. Insecta) pp. 1517-2224. [1615].
• Anthrenus varius Stephens, J.F. 1830. Illustrations of British entomology, or a synopsis of indigenous insects, containing their generic and specific distinctions, with an account of their metamorphoses, times of appearance, localities, food, and economy, as far as practicable. Mandibulata London : Baldwin & Cradock Vol. 3 1-374 pls 16-19. [130].
• Anthrenus verbasci Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [61].
• Byrrhus muscorum Füessly, J.C. 1775. Verzeichnis der ihm bekannten Schweitzerischen Inseckten mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel: nebst der Ankündigung eines Insecten Werks. Zurich und Winterthur : H. Steiner xii 62 pp., 1 pl. [5].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [86]

Introduction

Liu et al. (2022) suspects the Australian records of this species are misidentifications or recorded from quarantine interceptions as no recently collected material of the species exists in Australian collections.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

General References

Hinton, H.E. 1945. A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 viii 443 pp. [359] (adult description, biology)

Korschefsky, R. 1944. Bestimmungstabelle der bekanntesten deutschen Dermestidenlarven. Arbeiten über Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 11: 140-152 [151] (larval description)

Liu, Z., Zhou, Y-L., Szito, A. & Ślipiński, A. 2022. The Australian hide, larder and carpet beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae): a revision at the generic level. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 72(4): 837–926

Peacock, E.R. 1993. Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their Relatives (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). London : Royal Entomological Society of London 144 pp. [31, 64] (biology, distribution, keys to adult and larva)

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