Species Attagenus (Attagenus) pellio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dermestes pellio Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [355].
• Attagenus fruteti Grimmer, C.H.B. 1841. Steiermarks Coleopteren mit einhundertsechs neu beschriebenen Species. Graez : (Damian) viii 50 pp. [39].
• Attagenus pellio pilosissimus Roubal, J. 1932. Addition à la liste des Coléoptères de Monte Gargano. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 64: 66 [66].
• Dermestes bipunctatus Degeer, C. 1774. Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Hosselberg Vol. 4 456 pp. 19 pls. [197].
• Dermestes cylindricornis Schrank, F.P. 1785. Verzeichniss beobachteter Insecten im Fürstenthume Berchtesgaden. Neues Magazine für Liebhaber der Entomologie (Füessli) 2: 313-345 [315].
• Dermestes macellarius Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [63].
• Megatoma atra Herbst, J.F.W. 1792. Natursystem aller bekannten in und ausländischen Insecten; nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet (von C.G. Jablonsky), fortgesetzt von J.F.W. Herbst. Berlin : Pauli Vol. 4 viii 197 pp. 12 pls. [95].
• Megatoma schrankii Kugelann, J.G. 1792. Verzeichniss der in einigen Gegenden Preussens bis jetzt entdeckten Käfer-Arten, nebst kurzen Nachrichten von denselben. Neuestes Magazin für die Liebhaber der Entomologie (Schneider) 1(4): 477-512 [480].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [65]

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

General References

Beal, R.S. 1970. A taxonomic and biological study of species of Attagenini (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in the United States and Canada. Entomologica Americana 45: 141-235 [191] (larval description)

Hinton, H.E. 1945. A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 viii 443 pp. [306] (adult description, biology)

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