Introduction

The Australian dermestid fauna contains 132 species arranged in 14 genera and comprising some 11% of the world fauna. Worldwide the family contains 45 genera and about 1196 species or subspecies (Háva 2003a). These beetles are commonly called bacon, hide, leather, larder, dermestid, warehouse, fur or carpet beetles. Some species are fully cosmopolitan having been transported around the world by commerce and include species of Trogoderma Dejean, Anthrenus Müller, Attagenus Latreille, Thorictodes Reitter and Dermestes Linnaeus (Peacock 1993).

The Dermestidae are small to medium-sized beetles ranging from 1-12 mm in length, with hairy or scaly elytra that are occasionally distinctly coloured, forming distinctive patterns and all have a single simple eye called an ocellus situated in the middle of the head, with the exception of species of Dermestes Linnaeus and Trichelodes Carter (Matthews 1985; Peacock 1993; Lawrence & Britton 1994). The antennae are distinctly clubbed and usually fit into a groove on the underside of the thorax and are well concealed when the beetle is at rest (Peacock 1993). The male of Thylodrias contractus Motschulsky, however, does not have distinctly clubbed antennae.

Adult and larval stages utilise different food sources: adults are commonly found feeding on pollen or nectar of native plants while the larval stages are feeders upon dried animal matter of all kinds from preserved meat to furs, carpets and museum specimens, but not bone, while some are able to live partly or wholly on vegetable material (Hinton 1945; Peacock 1993). Some are often significant pests of stored products feeding on grain or cereal products and are largely responsible for any economic damage incurred. Most species that are responsible for losses to stored products came originally from animal nests or other natural microhabitats. These natural habitats maintain dermestid populations that serve as sources for future infestations. Many species, because of their association with stored products, are world-wide in distribution, having been carried around in ships' holds. Under natural conditions, dermestids occur on carcasses of animals, under bark, in webs of spiders and caterpillars or in nests of bees, ants, wasps, mammals, and birds (Hinton 1943; Hinton 1945; Peacock 1993). American species of Megatoma Herbst, Anthrenus and Trogoderma have also been found in the burrows of various wood-boring beetles where they feed on the dead larvae, pupae and adults (Hinton 1945).

The larvae are active animals and are densely clothed with hairs which usually form tufts and brushes at the hind end. These hairs may be barbed or spear-headed and serve as a defensive mechanism by detaching and entangling predators (Nutting & Spangler 1969). Many larvae have evolved an enzyme capable of digesting keratins and chitins, and many are able to feed on food with a very low moisture content (Hinton 1945; Matthews 1985).

The first Australian species were described by Erichson (1842) who described two species collected at Woolnorth, Tasmania, and Hope (1843) who described the well-known Australian Carpet Beetle Anthrenocerus australis (Hope) which has been introduced into New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain (Peacock 1993). Pascoe (1866) originally erected the genus Psacus in the family Rhipiceridae, that is now synonymised with Trogoderma. Macleay (1871) and Reitter (1881a, b) made minor contributions describing three and five species respectively. Blackburn (1891, 1892, 1894, 1903) described another 34 species, three of which have since been synonymised, as well as the genus Adelaidia, and Lea (1895, 1908) added another two new species of Trogoderma. Arrow (1915) described three new Australian Trogoderma, two new Anthrenocerus, a single Neoanthrenus and Orphinus and noted that Pascoe's Psacus was in fact a dermestid. Carter (1935) described the unique Trichelodes delicatula, originally placing it in the family Dascillidae; subsequently, Peacock (1993) clarified its true affinities to the Dermestidae. Over a period of eight years Armstrong (1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1949) made a major contribution, revising the Australian fauna describing 36 species and two new genera — Neoanthrenus and Myrmeanthrenus which is a known ant inquiline. Kalik (1957) described a new species of Neoanthrenus, Roach (2000) revised the genus Anthrenocerus, describing 14 new species, while Hava (2002, 2003b, 2005) described another three species of Neoanthrenus. Recently, Lawrence & Slipinski (2005) described another two genera and four species of Australian dermestid and discussed their phylogenetic significance. Other recent contributions to dermestid phylogeny include Zhantiev (2000), based on adult, larval and pupal characters, and Kiselova & McHugh (2005), based on larval and pupal characters.

The most recent classification (Lawrence & Slipinski 2005) of the dermestids recognises six subfamilies: Orphilinae, Dermestinae, Attageninae, Thylodriinae, Trinodinae and Megatominae. This classification is little changed from the first classifications of Rees (1943) and Hinton (1945).

The Australian genera are classified in six subfamilies — Attageninae (Attagenus); Dermestinae (Derbyana, Dermestes); Megatominae (Anthrenus, Neoanthrenus, Adelaidia, Anthrenocerus, Myrmanthrenus, Orphinus, Reesa, Thaumaglossa, Trogoderma); Thorictinae (Thorictodes); Orphilinae (Orphilodes); and Trinodinae (Thylodrias, Trichelodes).

The Attageninae include the Palaearctic/Afrotropical genus Attagenus with both introduced and native species. These species are storage pests on animal and vegetable products, e.g. wool, felt, carpets, furs, skins, bones, oilcake, myrobalans, seeds, cereals, cottonseed and flour.

Dermestinae include the Palaearctic genus Dermestes and the endemic Australian Derbyana. Dermestes is represented by seven introduced species in Australia. They are the largest of the dermestids and are very common and widely distributed, being found under dead animals and carrion in the wild. Dermestes are mainly pests of animal products for example, bones, hides and dried fish and are occasional pests of vegetable products, e.g. canola stems, nuts, copra and cocoa beans.

The Megatominae are the largest subfamily and include nine genera, mostly endemic. Australia is home to the most number of species of Trogoderma which includes some of the worlds worst economic pests, particularly of stored grains. The Australian species so far as are known are found under bark where they feed upon insect remains. Only one introduced species of Trogoderma, T. variabile, has become established as a major pest species in grain storage areas. Reesa is a parthenogenetic (reproduction without fertilisation) dermestid. The female lays unfertilised eggs that undergo full development and from which larvae hatch. Reesa is apparently widespread and common in Australia, particularly in grain storage areas and occasionally museum collections. The endemic Thaumaglossa is found in mantid egg cases while Myrmanthrenus lives in ants nests. Anthrenus species are commonly called Museum Beetles due to their propensity to destroy poorly maintained insect collections as well as feed upon the skins of mammals and birds. They are pests of woollen goods, fur, horse hair, bones, feathers, paper, insect collections, and occasionally stored food products (dried fish). The larvae are called 'woolly bears', because of their hairy appearance, and are often found in even the cleanest of houses where they feed upon dead insect remains in concealed corners and roof cavities.

The Orphilinae consist of two genera worldwide: Orphilus Erichson, containing five species distributed throughout the Holarctic Region (Háva 2003a), and Orphilodes Lawrence & Slipinski, known from Australia, Sabah and the Malay Peninsula (Lawrence & Slipinski 2005).

The Thorictinae include four genera worldwide: Thorictus Germar contains some 160 species and occurs from India, Burma through central Asia, Asia Minor and southern Europe to southern Africa; Afrothorictus Andreae and Macrothorictus Andreae endemic to the Cape region of South Africa; and Thorictodes Reitter with three species from China, India, central Africa and Guyana, and a single widely distributed species of stored products, Thorictodes heydeni Reitter (Beal 1959; Peacock 1993). This group was previously treated as a separate family, however presently it is considered a subfamily of Dermestidae (Halstead 1986; Lawrence 1982).

The Trinodinae include the endemic Trichelodes delicatula Carter adults of which are covered in erect, dehiscent setae and the introduced Thylodrias contractus which is called the Odd Beetle, the female of which is larviform and unlike any other beetle. A third recently described genus Trichodryas Lawrence & Slipinski is known from the Malay Peninsula, Sulu Archipelago, Sabah, Kalimantan and Java (Lawrence & Slipinski 2005).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

DERMESTIDAE: Thorictodes heydeni Reitter, 1875 [this species was included, apparently in error, in AFD before February 2013, when, following advice from DAFF (Ben Boyd, pers comm.) that the only two specimens in Australian museum collections are quarantine intercepts, the name was removed from the list of Australian fauna. It is known from the Nearctic Region (Mexico, United States of America), Oriental Region (Burma (= Myanmar), India, Pakistan, Indonesia) and Palaearctic Region (Algeria, Egypt, France, Spain, Turkey)]

General References

Armstrong, J.W.T. 1941. On Australian Dermestidae. Part I. Descriptions of a new genus and two new species; also a note on the genus Anthrenus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(5-6): 388-390

Armstrong, J.W.T. 1942. On Australian Dermestidae. Part II. The genus Trogoderma Berthold. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67(5-6): 321-330

Armstrong, J.W.T. 1943. On Australian Dermestidae. Part III. The genera Anthrenocerus Arrow and Orphinus Motsch.; also a note on the on the genus Cryptorhopalum Guér. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68(1-2): 57-63

Armstrong, J.W.T. 1945. On Australian Dermestidae. Part IV. Notes and the description of a new genus and four new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70(1-2): 47-52

Armstrong, J.W.T. 1949. On Australian Dermestidae. Part V. Notes and the description of four new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 74: 107-111

Arrow, G.J. 1915. Notes on the coleopterous family Dermestidae and descriptions of some new forms in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 425-451

Beal, R.S. 1959. A key to the Nearctic genera of Dermestidae. The Coleopterists Bulletin 13: 99-101

Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891]

Blackburn, T. 1892. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 15(1): 20-73 [Date published July 1892]

Blackburn, T. 1894. Notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Part XV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 85-108

Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182

Carter, H.J. 1935. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 179-193

Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5

Halstead, D.G.H. 1986. Keys for the identification of beetles associated with stored products. 1. Introduction and keys to families. Journal of Stored Product Research 22(4): 163-203

Háva, J. 2002. Neoanthrenus king sp. n. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from Australia. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 66(1): 29-30

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

Háva, J. 2003b. Neoanthrenus bilyi sp. n. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Anthrenini) from Western Australia. Folia Heyrovskyana 11(1): 47-50 [Date published 31/Jul/2003]

Háva, J. 2005. New distributional data about Dermestidae (Coleoptera) with descriptions of two new species, synonymy and lectotype designations. Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague East Taxonomical Series 1(1-2): 77-88

Hinton, H.E. 1943. Natural reservoirs of some beetles of the family Dermestidae known to infest stored products, with notes on those found in spiders' webs. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (A) 18: 33-42

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

Hope, F.W. 1843. Descriptions of new species of insects collected at Adelaide in south-western Australia by Mr. Fortnum. Proceedings of the Entomological Society for June 6, 1842. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 11(70): 317-319 [Date published Apr. 1843]

Kalik, V. 1957. A new dermestid from Australia (Col.). Casopis Ceskoslovenské Spolecnosti Entomologické 54(1): 22-23

Kiselyova, T. & Mchugh, J. 2005. A phylogenetic study of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) based on larval morphology. Systematic Entomology 31(3): 469-507

Lawrence, J.F. 1982. Coleoptera. pp. 482-553 in Parker, S.P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. New York : McGraw Hill Vol. 2 vii 1232 pp.

Lawrence, J.F. & Britton, E.B. 1994. Australian Beetles. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press x 192 pp.

Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, A. 2005. Three new genera of Indo-Australian Dermestidae (Coleoptera) and their phylogenetic significance. Invertebrate Systematics 19(3): 231-261

Lea, A.M. 1908. The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 20(2): 143-207 [Date published March 31, 1908]

Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205

Matthews, E.G. 1985. A Guide to the Genera of Beetles of South Australia. Part 4. Polyphaga: Byrrhoidea, Buprestoidea, Dryopoidea, Elateroidea, Cantharoidea, Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea. Adelaide : South Australian Museum 68 pp.

Nutting, W.L. & Spangler, H.G. 1969. The hastate setae of certain dermestid larvae: an entangling defense mechanism. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 62: 763-769

Pascoe, F.P. 1866. Notices of new or little known genera and species of Coleoptera. Part V. Journal of Entomology 2: 443-493, pls xviii-xix [Date published Jun. 1866]

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.

Rees, B.E. 1943. Classification of the Dermestidae (larder, hide and carpet beetles) based on larval characters, with a key to the North American genera. Miscellaneous Publication United States Department of Agriculture 511: 1-18

Reitter, E. 1881a. Die aussereuropäischen Dermestiden meiner Sammlung. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 19: 27-60

Reitter, E. 1881b. Eine neue Trogoderma aus Neuholland. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 25: 232

Roach, A.M.E. 2000. Review of the Australian species of the dermestid genus Anthrenocerus Arrow (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(2): 175-224

Zhantiev, R.D. 2000. Classification and phylogeny of dermestids (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 79(3): 1-15

History of changes

History of changes

Introduction

Proposed following phylogenetic analyses conducted by Zhou et al. (2022).

General References

Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

History of changes

• Adelaidia Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [130].

  Type species:

   Adelaidia rigua Blackburn, 1891 by monotypy.
• Adelaidea Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [159] [incorrect subsequent spelling].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

History of changes

• Adelaidia queenslandica Zhou, Y-L., Ślipinśki, A. & Liu, Z. 2020. Systematic placement and identity of Adelaidia Blackburn (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) with description of one new species from Queensland and a new genus. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 70(4): 737–746.
  Zoobank Registration Number:urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:303B3B72-032D-4046- 9794-A33FF0373BCE

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ANIC Database 383 No. 25-074417 Male, Isla Gorge National Park [25°10’S, 150°01’E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS)

History of changes

• Adelaidia rigua Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [130].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, SA; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

General References

Háva, J. 2000. A review of the genus Adelaidia (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 85: 53-55 (extra-limital distribution)

History of changes

History of changes

• Aethriostoma Motschulsky, V. von 1858. Entomologie spéciale. Insectes des Indies orientales. Études Entomologiques 7: 20-122 [47].

  Type species:

   Aethriostoma undulata Motschulsky, 1858 by monotypy.
• Brachysphyrus Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [159].

  Type species:

   Brachysphyrus irroratus Blackburn, 1903 by monotypy.
• Pseudotelopes Pic, M. 1916. Notes et descriptions abrégées diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques, Moulins 17: 2-8 [2].

  Type species:

   Pseudotelopes simoni Pic, 1916 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [54]

Introduction

Aethriostoma was elevated from subgeneic level to generic level following phylogenetic analyses conducted by Zhou et al. (2022).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

History of changes

• Brachysphyrus irroratus Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [160].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Cairns, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cairns.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: scavenger.

History of changes

• Aethriostoma undulata Motschulsky, V. von 1858. Entomologie spéciale. Insectes des Indies orientales. Études Entomologiques 7: 20-122 [47].
• Attagenus rufipes Walker, F. 1859. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects (continued). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 3: 50-56 [53].
• Pseudotelopes simoni Pic, M. 1916. Notes et descriptions abrégées diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques, Moulins 17: 2-8 [2].
• Pseudotelopes testaceipes Pic, M. 1916. Notes et descriptions abrégées diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques, Moulins 17: 2-8 [2].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [55]

Distribution

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: 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. [324] (adult description)

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [54]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Attagenus Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [121].

  Type species:

   Dermestes pellio Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Curtis, J. 1829. Folio 247. In, Curtis, J. (ed.). British Entomology, being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland; containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. London : J. Curtis Vol. VI pp. folios 242-288. [folio 247].
• Lanorus Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1868. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Tribu des Scuticolles. Paris : F. Savy 186 pp. [68].

  Type species:

   Dermestes vigintiguttatus Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.
• Megatoma 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 [479] [junior homonym of Megatoma Herbst, 1792].

  Type species:

   Megatoma schaefferi Herbst, 1792 by original designation.
• Telopus Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1868. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Tribu des Scuticolles. Paris : F. Savy 186 pp. [101] [incorrect subsequent spelling].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [55]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Attagenus (Attagenus) brunneus Faldermann, F. 1835. Fauna entomologica Transcaucasica I. Additamenta entomologica ad Faunam Rossicam in itineribus Jussu Imperatoris Augustissimi annis 1827-1831 a Cl. Ménétriés et Szovitz susceptis collecta, in lucem adita. Coleoptera Persico-Armeniaca. Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 4: 1-310 [227].
• Attagenus sordidus Heer, O. 1841. Fauna Coleopterorum Helvetica. Turici : Orelii, Fuesslini et Sociorum Vol. 1 xii 652 pp. [438].
• Attagenus dalmatinus Küster, H.C. 1847. Die Käfer Europas. Nach der Natur beschrieben. Mit Beiträgen mehrerer Entomologen. Nürnberg : Bauer und Raspe Vol. Heft X 100 sheets, 3 pls. [44].
• Attagenus marginicollis Handschuch, H.F. in Küster, H.C. 1848. Die Käfer Europas. Nach der Natur beschrieben. Mit Beiträgen mehrerer Entomologen. Nürnberg : Bauer und Raspe Vol. Heft XII 100 sheets, 2 pls. [76].
• Attagenus fulvipes Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1868. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Tribu des Scuticolles. Paris : F. Savy 186 pp. [71].
• Attagenus longicornis Pic, M. 1894. Descriptions et notes entomologiques (Coléoptères). L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 10: 66 [66].
• Attagenus elongatulus Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [147].
• Attagenus extricatus Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [146].
• Attagenus bicolor Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [147].
• Attagenus elongatus Casey, T.L. 1916. Some random studies among the Clavicornia. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7: 35-283 [183].
• Attagenus piceus obliquus Rey, C. 1889. Remarques en passant. L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 5: 58-59 [59] [as variety].
• Attagenus dalmatinus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la Collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Paris : Crevot, Libraire viii 136 pp. [46] [nom. nud.].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [59]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Brisbane.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: scavenger.

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 [205] (larval description)

History of changes

• Attagenus (Attagenus) cyphonoides Reitter, E. 1881. Die aussereuropäischen Dermestiden meiner Sammlung. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 19: 27-60 [34].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) S. Egypt (as Aegyptus mer.).
• Attagenus alfierii Pic, M. 1910. Descriptions ou diagnoses et notes diverses (Suite). L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 26: 17-19 [17].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [60]

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 [165] (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. [322] (adult description, biology)

Vijay Veer, P.R. & Rao, K.M. 1991. Taxonomic and biological notes on Attagenus and Anthrenus spp (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) found damaging stored woollen fabrics in India. Journal of Stored Product Research 27: 185-198 [187] (larva)

History of changes

• 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 Edn., 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

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)

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [70] (full synonymy)

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [70]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Dermestes unicolor Brahm, N.J. 1791. Insecten-Kalender für Sammler und Oekonomen. Händbuch der ökonomischen Insektengeschichte in Form eines Kalenders bearbeitet. Mainz : Universitätsbuchhandlung Vol. 2 xxxi 558 pp. [144].
• Attagenus cylindricornis Say, T. 1825. Descriptions of new species of coleopterous insects inhabiting the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5(1): 160-204 [185].
• Attagenus cylindricornis floricola Say, T. 1825. Descriptions of new species of coleopterous insects inhabiting the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5(1): 160-204 [185].
• Attagenus cylindricornis obscurus Say, T. 1825. Descriptions of new species of coleopterous insects inhabiting the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5(1): 160-204 [185].
• Attagenus deficiens Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [146].
• Attagenus megadoma Sturm, J. 1826. Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung. Erster Theil. Käfer. Nürnberg : Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers viii 207 pp. 4 pls. [98].
• Attagenus stygialis Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1868. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Tribu des Scuticolles. Paris : F. Savy 186 pp. [73].
• Dermestes cilindricornis Melsheimer, F.V. 1806. A Catalogue of Insects of Pennsylvania. Part 1. Hanover, York County : Printed for the author, F.V. Melsheimer vi 60 pp. [7] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes floricola Melsheimer, F.V. 1806. A Catalogue of Insects of Pennsylvania. Part 1. Hanover, York County : Printed for the author, F.V. Melsheimer vi 60 pp. [7] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes macellarius Duftschmidt, K. 1825. Fauna Austriaca, oder beschreibung der österreichischen Insecten, für angehende Freunde der Entomologie. Linz & Leipzig : Akad. Buchhandl. Vol. 3 288 pp. [39].
• Dermestes megatoma Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [71].
• Dermestes obscurus Melsheimer, F.V. 1806. A Catalogue of Insects of Pennsylvania. Part 1. Hanover, York County : Printed for the author, F.V. Melsheimer vi 60 pp. [7] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes piceus Olivier, A.G. 1790. Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée, Coléoptères. Genres 9–34. Paris : Baudonin Vol. II (9) 485 pp. 63 pls. [10] [junior primary homonym of Dermestes piceus Thunberg, 1781].
• Megatoma brevicornis 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].
• Nitidula cylindricornis Schrank, F.P. 1798. Fauna Boica: Durchgedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und zahmen Thiere. Nürnberg : In der Stein'schen Buchhandlung Vol. 1 720 pp. [446].
• Attagenus cylindricornis Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [147] [junior secondary homonym of Nitidula cylindricornis Schrank, 1798].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [70]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: scavenger, stored product pest.

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 [168] (larva)

Hinton, H.E. 1945. A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 viii 443 pp. [309] (adult description, biology, life history (as Attagenus piceus Olivier))

History of changes

• Katkaenus Háva, J. 2006. Description of a new genus Katkaenus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Attageninae) from South India. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 6(1): 29–33.

  Type species:

   Katkaenus spectaculus Háva, 2006 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

History of changes

• Katkaenus buruanus Háva, J. 2014. Contribution to the knowledge of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from the Maluku Islands (Indonesia). Part 1. Description of a new species of Katkaenus Háva, 2006 from Buru Island. Arquivos Entomolóxicos 12: 119–122.

  Type data:

   Holotype Numbers not provided (Specimens held in Jiří Háva, Private Entomological Laboratory & Collection, Únětice u Prahy, Prague-west, Czech Republic.), Indonesia, Maluku, E Buru, Ilath env., Remaja Mt., 200 m.
  Paratype(s) Numbers not provided, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Queensland: 9km ENE of Mount Tozer; stored in ANIC. See Liu et al. (2022).

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Telopes Redtenbacher, L. 1843. Bemerkungen über die in Syrien von Theodor Kotschy gesammelten Käfer Coleopterorum Syriae genera et species novae. pp. 973-990 in Russegger, J. von (ed.). Reisen in Europa, Asien und Afrika, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die naturwissenschaftlichen Verhältnisse der betreffenden Länder, unternommen in den Jahren 1835 bis 1841. Stuttgart : Schweizerbart Vol. 1 (1).

  Type species:

   Telopes dispar Redtenbacher, 1843 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Anthrenus fasciatus Thunberg, C.P. 1795. Dissertatio Entomologica, sistens Insecta Suecica. Upsaliae : Edman Vol. Pars 9 pp. 105-113. [Date published 20/May/1795] [105].
• Anthrenus gloriosae Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae : Proft et Storch ii 573 pp. [76].
• Attagenus annulifer Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une introduction renfermant l’anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés, par M. Brullé. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2 563 pp. [36].
• Attagenus cinnamomeus Roth, J.R. 1851. Diagnosen neuer Coleoptera aus Abyssinien. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 17: 115-133 [122].
• Attagenus plebeius Sharp, D. in Blackburn, T. & Sharp, D. 1885. Memoirs on the Coleoptera of the Hawaiian Islands. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 3: 119-290 [147].
• Attagenus unifasciatus Fairmaire, L. in Fairmaire, L. & Coquerel, C. 1860. Essai sur les Coléoptères de Barbarie. Deuxième partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8: 145-176 [168].
• Trogoderma subfasciatum Chevrolat, A.A.L. 1863. Coléoptères de l'Ile Cuba. (Suite) (1). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3: 589-620 [617].
• Attagenus annulatus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la Collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Paris : Crevot, Libraire viii 136 pp. [46] [nom. nud.].
• Attagenus gossypiatus Fauvel, A. 1903. Faune analytique des coléoptères de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 22: 203-379 [335] [nom. nud.].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [61]

Generic Combinations

• Telopes fasciatus (Thunberg, 1795).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: scavenger.

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 [193] (larval decription)

Hinton, H.E. 1945. A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 viii 443 pp. [320] (adult description, biology (as Attagenus gloriosae (Fabricius)))

Vijay Veer, P.R. & Rao, K.M. 1991. Taxonomic and biological notes on Attagenus and Anthrenus spp (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) found damaging stored woollen fabrics in India. Journal of Stored Product Research 27: 185-198 [191] (larva)

History of changes

History of changes

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [15]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

• Derbyana Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, A. 2005. Three new genera of Indo-Australian Dermestidae (Coleoptera) and their phylogenetic significance. Invertebrate Systematics 19(3): 231-261.

  Type species:

   Derbyana matthewsi Lawrence and Ślipiński, 2005 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

History of changes

• Derbyana matthewsi Lawrence, J.F. & Ślipiński, A. 2005. Three new genera of Indo-Australian Dermestidae (Coleoptera) and their phylogenetic significance. Invertebrate Systematics 19(3): 231-261 [235].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, Derby, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Dermestes (derbyana) matthewsi (Lawrence & Slipinski, 2005). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Dermestes 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 Edn., 824 pp. [342].

  Type species:

   Dermestes lardarius Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [428].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [15]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

• Dermestes ater Degeer, C. 1774. Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Hosselberg Vol. 4 456 pp. 19 pls. [223].
• Dermestes cadaverinus 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] [55].
• Dermestes chinensis Motschulsky, V. von 1866. Catalogue des Insectes recus du Japon. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 39: 163-200 [168].
• Dermestes cinereus Motschulsky, V. von 1848. Kritische beurtheilung von Dr. Erichson's Naturgeschichte der insecten Deutschland's. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 21: 544–569 [563].
• Dermestes domesticus Germar, E.F. 1824. Insectorum species novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae: Coleoptera. Halae : J.C. Hendel et Fil Vol. 1 xxiv 624 pp. 2 pls. [83].
• Dermestes domesticus subsulcatus Ballion, E. 1878. Verzeichniss der im Kreise von Kuldsha gesammelten Käfer. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 53: 253-389 [277].
• Dermestes favarcqui Godard, A. 1883. Description d'une espèce nouvelle de Dermestidae. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 29: 383-384 [383].
• Dermestes felinus 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. [34].
• Dermestes hispidulus Montrouzier, P. 1860. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle- Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifui, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8(3): 229-308 [264].
• Dermestes noxius Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1867. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Paris : F. Savy 128 pp. vii pls. [55].
• Dermestes piceus Thunberg, C.P. 1781. Dissertatio entomologica novas Insectorum species, sistens. Pars prima. Upsaliae : Edman 28 pp. [8].
• Dermestes rufoapicalis Pic, M. 1951. Descriptions diverses et notes. Diversités Entomologiques, Moulins 8: 7-16 [7].
• Dermestes subcostatus Murray, A. 1867. List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the west coast of Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 20-23 [22].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [22]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), 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. [296] (adult description, biology)

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. [50] (biology, adult and larval keys)

Zhantiev, R.D. & Volkova, T.G. 1998. Larvae of dermestid beetles from the genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) in Russia and adjacent countries. 1. subgenus Dermestes. [In Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 77: 891-897 [896] (larval description)

History of changes

• Dermestes haemorrhoidalis Küster, H.C. 1852. Die Käfer Europas. Nach der Natur beschrieben. Mit Beiträgen mehrerer Entomologen. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. Heft XXV 108 sheets, 2 pls. [64].
• Dermestes gulo Mulsant, E. & Godart, A. 1855. Description de quelques espèces de Coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 261-283 [275].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [23]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

General References

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. [51] (biology, adult and larval keys)

Zhantiev, R.D. & Volkova, T.G. 1998. Larvae of dermestid beetles from the genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) in Russia and adjacent countries. 1. subgenus Dermestes. [In Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 77: 891-897 [895] (larval description)

History of changes

• Dermestes lardarius 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 Edn., 824 pp. [354].
• Dermestes lardarius atrobasalis Pic, M. 1951. Descriptions diverses et notes. Diversités Entomologiques, Moulins 8: 7-16 [7] [as variety].
• Dermestes lardarius conjunctus Reitter, E. 1887. Coleopterologische Notizen. XXIII. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 6: 171-173 [173] [as variety].
• Dermestes lardarius proximus Reitter, E. 1887. Coleopterologische Notizen. XXIII. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 6: 171-173 [173] [as variety].
• Dermestes luganensis Stierlin, G. 1902. Beschreibung einiger neuen Species von Coleoptera. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft / Bulletin of the Société Entomologique Suisse 10: 425-427 [425].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [23]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), 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. [275] (adult description, biology)

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. [49] (biology, adult and larval keys)

Zhantiev, R.D. & Volkova, T.G. 1998. Larvae of dermestid beetles from the genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) in Russia and adjacent countries. 1. subgenus Dermestes. [In Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 77: 891-897 [895] (larval description)

History of changes

• Dermestinus Zhantiev, R.D. 1967. Opyt taksonomyczeskovo analyza roda Dermestes L. (Coleoptera, Dermestidsae). [In Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 46: 1350-1356 [1352].

  Type species:

   Dermestes murinus Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

• Dermestes carnivorus 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] [55].
• Dermestes carnivorus doemmlingi Meier, W. 1899. Über Abänderungen einiger Coleopteren-Arten, welche bei Hamburg gefunden wurden. Entomologische Nachrichten. Berlin 25: 97-102 [99] [as variety].
• Dermestes impressicollis Reitter, E. 1881. Die aussereuropäischen Dermestiden meiner Sammlung. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 19: 27-60 [29].
• Dermestes mucoreus LeConte, J.L. 1854. Synopsis of the Dermestidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 106–113 [Jun. 1854] [108].
• Dermestes muscoreus Reitter, E. 1881. Die aussereuropäischen Dermestiden meiner Sammlung. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 19: 27-60 [28].
• Dermestes sobrinus LeConte, J.L. 1854. Synopsis of the Dermestidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 106–113 [Jun. 1854] [108].
• Dermestes unicolor Lepesme, P. 1950. Révision des Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 115: 37-68 [44].
• Dermestes versicolor Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une introduction renfermant l’anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés, par M. Brullé. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2 563 pp. [33].
• Dermestes carniforus Goeze, J.A.E. 1777. Entomologische Beiträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems. Leipzig : Weidmann Vol. 1 xvi 736 pp. [141] [unjustified emendation of Dermestes carnivorus Fabricius, 1775].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [16]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

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. [285] (adult description, biology)

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. [48] (biology, adult and larval keys)

History of changes

• Dermestes frischii 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 [478].
• Dermestes frischii uniformis Rey, C. 1889. Remarques en passant. L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 5: 58-59 [59].
• Dermestes frischii heyrovskyi Obenberger, J. 1917. II. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Käfer-fauna. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 82: 9-45 [32] [as subspecies].
• Dermestes frischii rufimembris Pic, M. 1951. Descriptions diverses et notes. Diversités Entomologiques, Moulins 8: 7-16 [7] [as variety].
• Dermestes frischii sternimaculatus Marcu, O. 1957. Contributii la cunoasterea faunei Coleopteleror Transilvaniei. Bulletin of the University Cluj-Napoca, Rumania 2: 527-544 [531] [as variety].
• Dermestes pollinctus Hope, F.W. 1834. Notice of several species of insects found in the heads of Egyptian mummies. In, Pettigrew, T.J. (ed.). A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman xxi 264pp. [54].
• Dermestes vulpinus 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. [124] [junior primary homonym of Dermestes vulpinus Fabricius, 1781].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [17]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), 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. [269] (adult description, biology)

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. [47] (biology, adult and larval keys)

Zhantiev, R.D. & Volkova, T.G. 1999. Larvae of dermestid beetles from the genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) in Russia and adjacent countries. 1. Dermestinus subgenus. [In Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 78(2): 170-180 [174] (larval description)

History of changes

• Dermestes maculatus Degeer, C. 1774. Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Hosselberg Vol. 4 456 pp. 19 pls. [223].
• Dermestes australis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la Collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Paris : Crevot, Libraire viii 136 pp. [46] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes cinereus Redtenbacher, L. 1867. Coleopteren in Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Wien : Karl Gerold's Sohn Vol. 2 249 pp. 5 pls. [43].
• Dermestes elongatus Hope, F.W. 1834. Notice of several species of insects found in the heads of Egyptian mummies. In, Pettigrew, T.J. (ed.). A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman xxi 264pp. [55].
• Dermestes lateralis Sturm, J. 1826. Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung. Erster Theil. Käfer. Nürnberg : Gedruckt auf Kosten des Verfassers viii 207 pp. 4 pls. [130] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes lupinus Mannerheim, C.G. von 1843. Beitrag zur Käfer-Fauna der Aleutischen Inseln, der Insel Sitkha und Neu-Californiens. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 16: 175-314 [257].
• Dermestes lupinus Cristofori, J. de 1832. Catalogus in IV. Sectiones divisus rerum naturalium in Museo exstantium Josephi de Cristofori et Georgii Jan : Sectio III.a Entomologia, Pars I.a Conspectus methodicus insectorum, Fasc. I.us Coleoptera. Milano : Parmae xvi 111 pp. [89] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes maculatus nigropubescens Kalik, V. 1955. Dermestidae. pp. 93-99 in De Witte, G.F. (ed.). Exploration du Parc National de L'Upemba. I. Mission G.F. de Witte en collaboration avec W. Adam, A. Janssens, L. van Meel et R. Verheyen (1946-1949). Bruxelles : Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo belge Vol. Fasc. 38 (6). [94] [as aberration].
• Dermestes maculatus pakistanicus Havelka, J. 1951. Dermestes maculatus pakistanicus ssp. n. introduced from Pakistan to C.S.R. (3rd contribution to knowledge of Dermestes L.) (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). Folia Entomologica. Brno 10: 143-144 [143] [as subspecies].
• Dermestes maculatus cyprius Pic, M. 1951. Descriptions diverses et notes. Diversités Entomologiques, Moulins 8: 7-16 [7] [as variety].
• Dermestes marginatus Thunberg, C.P. 1781. Dissertatio entomologica novas Insectorum species, sistens. Pars prima. Upsaliae : Edman 28 pp. [7].
• Dermestes roei Hope, F.W. 1834. Notice of several species of insects found in the heads of Egyptian mummies. In, Pettigrew, T.J. (ed.). A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman xxi 264pp. [55].
• Dermestes semistriatus Boheman, C.H. 1851. Insecta Caffrariae annis 1838-1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Coleoptera. Holmiae : Fritze & Norstedt Vol. 1 8 + 626 pp., 2 pls. [Date published 1848-1851: pp. 299-626, 2 pls. issued in 1851] [583].
• Dermestes senegalensis Cristofori, J. de 1832. Catalogus in IV. Sectiones divisus rerum naturalium in Museo exstantium Josephi de Cristofori et Georgii Jan : Sectio III.a Entomologia, Pars I.a Conspectus methodicus insectorum, Fasc. I.us Coleoptera. Milano : Parmae xvi 111 pp. [30] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes senex Germar, E.F. 1824. Insectorum species novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae: Coleoptera. Halae : J.C. Hendel et Fil Vol. 1 xxiv 624 pp. 2 pls. [84].
• Dermestes truncatus Casey, T.L. 1916. Some random studies among the Clavicornia. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7: 35-283 [180].
• Dermestes vulpinus 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] [64].
• Dermestes vulpinus rattulus Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1867. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Paris : F. Savy 128 pp. vii pls. [30] [as variety].
• Dermestes vulpinus sudanicus Gredler, V.P. 1878. Zur Käfer-Fauna Central Afrikas. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 501-507 [506] [as variety].
• Dermestes maculatus kurseongensis Lepesme, P. 1939. Note synonymique sur les Dermestes (Coleoptera) et description d'une espèce et d'une varieté nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 44: 190-193 [192] [as variety].
• Dermestes meculatus Li, H. 1988. Dermestidae. pp. 357-360 in Huang, F., Wang, P., Yin, W., Yu, P., Lee, T., Yang, C. & Wang, X. (eds). Insects of Mt. Namjagbarwa region of Xizang [in Chinese]. Beijing : Science Press xii 621 pp. [358] [incorrect subsequent spelling].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [19]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: scavenger, stored product pest.

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. [261] (adult description, biology)

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. [46] (biology, adult and larval keys)

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [19] (full synonymy)

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [19]

History of changes

• Dermestes murinus 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 Edn., 824 pp. [356].
• Dermestes catta Panzer, G.W.F. 1789. Einige seltene Insecten beschrieben. Halle : Stück 35 pp. 1 pl. [23].
• Dermestes marinus 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. [35].
• Dermestes nebulosus Degeer, C. 1774. Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Hosselberg Vol. 4 456 pp. 19 pls. [197].
• Dermestes roseiventris Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la Collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Paris : Crevot, Libraire viii 136 pp. [46] [nom. nud.].
• Dermestes roseiventris Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères; avec une introduction renfermant l’anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés, par M. Brullé. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2 563 pp. [34].

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. [287] (adult description, biology)

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. [48] (biology, adult and larval keys)

History of changes

History of changes

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [76]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Anthrenus Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abregée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. Paris : Durand Vol. 1 viii 523 pp. pls 1-10. [113].

  Type species:

   Dermestes scrophulariae Linnaeus, 1758 by designation under Plenary Powers, see Mroczkowski, M. 1968. Distribution of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) of the world with a catalogue of all known species. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 26(3): 1-191 [139]; ICZN 1994. Opinion 1754. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris (Geoffroy, 1762): some generic names conserved (Crustacea, Insecta). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51: 58-70.
• Anthrenus Müller, O.F. 1764. Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsdalina sive methodica descriptio insectorum agri Fridrichsdalensis, cum characteribus genericis et specificis, nominibus triviabus, locis natalibus, iconibus allegiatis, novisque pluribus speceibus additis. Hafniae et. Lipsiae : Gleditsch xxiv 96 pp. [3].

  Type species:

   Dermestes scrophulariae Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Anthrenus Schaeffer, I.C. 1766. Elementa Entomologica. Weiss : Ratisbonae 168 pp. cxxxiii pls. [26].

  Type species:

   Dermestes scrophulariae Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Byrrhus Sulzer, J.H. 1776. Abgekürzte Geschichte der Insecten uach dem Linneischen System. Winterthur : H. Steiner & Co. xxviii + 274 + 72 pp. 32 pls. [25].

  Type species:

   Dermestes scrophulariae Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Hypoceuthes Gerstaecker, A. 1871. Beitrag zur Insektenfauna von Zanzibar. III. Coleoptera. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 37: 42-86 [46].

  Type species:

   Hypoceuthes aterrimus Gerstaecker, 1871 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [76]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [80]

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, Northern Territory, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

General References

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

History of changes

• Anthrenus flavipes LeConte, J.L. 1854. Synopsis of the Dermestidae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 106–113 [Jun. 1854] [112].
• Anthrenus fasciatus Reitter, E. 1881. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. III Heft I. Auflage. Enthaltend die Familien: Scaphidiidae, Lathridiidae und Dermestidae. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 30: 41-94 [87].
• Anthrenus fasciatus alboimpletus Sahlberg, J.R. 1903. Coleoptera Numido-Punica mensibus Martio, Aprili et Majo 1899 in Tunisia et Algeria orientali collecta. Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar 45(19): 1-70 [34] [as variety].
• Anthrenus importatus Pic, M. 1952. Coléoptères du globe (suite). L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 68: 1-4 [1].
• Anthrenus pimpinellae cinnamomeus Gredler, V.P. 1878. Zur Käfer-Fauna Central Afrikas. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27: 501-507 [507] [as variety].
• Anthrenus seminiveus Casey, T.L. 1916. Some random studies among the Clavicornia. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7: 35-283 [199].
• Anthrenus vorax Waterhouse, C.O. 1883. Description of a new species of Anthrenus from India (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 11: 61 [61].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [80]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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. [334] (adult description, biology, life cycle)

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. [30, 62] (biology, distribution, keys to adult and larva)

Vijay Veer, P.R. & Rao, K.M. 1991. Taxonomic and biological notes on Attagenus and Anthrenus spp (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) found damaging stored woollen fabrics in India. Journal of Stored Product Research 27: 185-198 [195] (larval description)

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [83]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Byrrhus pimpinellae 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].
• Anthrenus pimpinellae dimidiatus Hauser, F. 1894. Beitrag zur Coleopteren-Fauna von Transcaspien und Turkestan. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1894: 17-74 [23] [nom. nud.].
• Anthrenus scrophulariae Fourcroy, A.F. 1785. Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quæ in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundam methodam Geoffrœanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivialia & fere trecentæ novæ species. Paris : Via et Aedibus Serpentineis Vol. 1 viii 231 pp. [27].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [83]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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. [347] (adult description, biology)

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, 63] (biology, distribution, keys to adult and larva)

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [83]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

History of changes

• Dermestes scrophulariae 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 Edn., 824 pp. [356].
• Anthrenus histrio Fabricius, J.C. 1792. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1(1) xx 330 pp. [264].
• Anthrenus insulicola Obenberger, J. 1917. II. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der palaearktischen Käfer-fauna. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 82: 9-45 [32].
• Anthrenus scrophulariae suecicus Palm, T. 1940. Systematische Bemerkungen zu den schwedischen Anthrenus-Arten (Col. Dermestidae). Entomologisk Tidskrift 61: 1-3 [1].
• Anthrenus verbasci Herbst, J.F.W. 1797. Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten; als eine Fortsezzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet (von C. G. Jablonsky), Fortgesetzt von J. F. W. Herbst. Berlin : Pauli Vol. 7 346 pp. 26 pls. [328].
• Dermestes variegatus Scopoli, G.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica, exhibens Insecta Carniolæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnæana. Vindobonae [=Vienna] : Trattner xxxvi 420 pp. [16].
• Anthrenus scrophulariae rubricollis Sahlberg 1913. Coleoptera mediterranea orientalia, quae in Aegypto, Palestina, Syria, Caramania atque in Anatolia occidentali anno 1904 collegerunt John Sahlberg et Unio Saalas. Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar 55A(19): 1-281 [109].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [83]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: 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. [350] (adult description, biology)

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, 63] (biology, distribution, keys to adult and larva)

History of changes

• Florilinus Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1868. Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Tribu des Scuticolles. Paris : F. Savy 186 pp. [141].

  Type species:

   Dermestes museorum Linnaeus, 1761 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

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)

History of changes

• 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

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)

History of changes

• Nathrenus Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [161].

  Type species:

   Byrrhus verbasci Linnaeus, 1767 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Byrrhus verbasci Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [568].
• Anthrenus adspersus Herbst, J.F.W. 1797. Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten; als eine Fortsezzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet (von C. G. Jablonsky), Fortgesetzt von J. F. W. Herbst. Berlin : Pauli Vol. 7 346 pp. 26 pls. [332].
• Anthrenus destructor Melsheimer, F.V. 1844. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 98-118 [116].
• Anthrenus florilegus Fourcroy, A.F. 1785. Entomologia Parisiensis; sive catalogus insectorum quæ in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secundam methodam Geoffrœanam in sectiones, genera & species distributus: cui addita sunt nomina trivialia & fere trecentæ novæ species. Paris : Via et Aedibus Serpentineis Vol. 1 viii 231 pp. [27].
• Anthrenus nitidulus Küster, H.C. 1847. Die Käfer Europas. Nach der Natur beschrieben. Mit Beiträgen mehrerer Entomologen. Nürnberg : Bauer und Raspe Vol. Heft X 100 sheets, 3 pls. [47].
• Anthrenus pictus Germar, E.F. 1813. Neue Insekten. Magazin der Entomologie 1: 114-133 [121].
• Anthrenus tomentosus Thunberg, C.P. 1815. Anthreni monographia. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 7: 150-156 [151].
• Anthrenus verbasci confusus Reitter, E. 1886. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. III. Heft II. Auflage. Enthaltend die Familien: Scaphidiidae, Lathridiidae und Dermestidae. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 24: 40-74 [69] [as variety].
• Anthrenus verbasci nebulosus Reitter, E. 1886. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. III. Heft II. Auflage. Enthaltend die Familien: Scaphidiidae, Lathridiidae und Dermestidae. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 24: 40-74 [69] [as variety].
• Anthrenus verbasci vorax Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [161] [as variety].
• Bostrichus varius 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] [60].
• Anthrenus tricolor Herbst, J.F.W. 1797. Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten; als eine Fortsezzung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet (von C. G. Jablonsky), Fortgesetzt von J. F. W. Herbst. Berlin : Pauli Vol. 7 346 pp. 26 pls. [333].
• Anthrenus verbasci pistor Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [161] [as variety].
• Anthrenus verbasci substriatus Casey, T.L. 1900. Review of the American Corylophidae, Cryptophagidae, Tritomidae and Dermestidae with other studies. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 8(2): 51–172 [161] [as variety].
• Anthrenus verbasci caseyi Hinton, H.E. 1945. A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 viii 443 pp. [328] [as variety].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [89]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), 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. [326] (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)

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. [30, 61] (biology, distrbution, keys to adult and larva)

History of changes

History of changes

• Trogodermina Zhou, Nicholls, Liu, Hartley, Szito, Ślipiński & Zwick, 2022.

History of changes

• Eurhopalus Solier, A.J.J. 1849. Orden III. Coleopteros (Pentamera, Heteromera I). pp. 105-380 in Gay, C. (ed.). Historia Física y Política de Chile. Zoológica. Paris & Santiago : C. Gay Vol. 4 511 pp. 32 pls.

  Type species:

   Eurhopalus variegatus Solier, 1849 by original designation.
• Sodaliatoma Háva, J. 2013. Description of Sodaliatoma konvickai gen. et. sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Peru. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (52): 113–115.

  Type species:

   Sodaliatoma konvickai Háva, 2013 by monotypy.
• Reesa Beal, R.S. 1967. A revisionary study of the North American dermestid beetles formerly included in the genus Perimegatoma (Coleoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 5: 281-312.

  Type species:

   Perimegatoma vespulae Milliron, 1939 by original designation.
• Neoanthrenus Armstrong, J.W.T. 1941. On Australian Dermestidae. Part I. Descriptions of a new genus and two new species; also a note on the genus Anthrenus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(5-6): 388-390.

  Type species:

   Anthrenus ocellifer Blackburn, 1891 by original designation.
• Anthrenocerus Arrow, G.J. 1915. Notes on the coleopterous family Dermestidae and descriptions of some new forms in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 425-451.

  Type species:

   Anthrenus australis Hope, 1843 by original designation.
• Myrmeanthrenus Armstrong, J.W.T. 1945. On Australian Dermestidae. Part IV. Notes and the description of a new genus and four new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70(1-2): 47-52.

  Type species:

   Myrmeanthrenus frontalis Armstrong, 1945 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24 [21]

Introduction

Through phylogenetic analyses, Zhou et al. (2022) found the genus Trogoderma to be paraphyletic, and split into two re-defined genera. Species of Trogoderma that occur in the Southern Hemisphere (with the exception of T. variabile) were transferred to the genus Eurhopalus. The genera Anthrenocerus, Myrmeanthrenus, Neoanthrenus, and Reesa were also synonymised with Eurhopalus.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Tanami (TAN) ; ACT, NSW, NT, SA, WA: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NSW, NT, WA: Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Sturt Plateau (STU) ; NT, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

History of changes

• Eurhopalus albicomus Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

  Type data:

   Holotype WADA 144663, 10km W of Corrigin, WA [32°20’S, 117°57’E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC Numbers not provided, same data as Holotype; WADA 51135, 51133, Corrigin, WA [32°20’S, 117°52’E]; WADA 144645, 10km north of Three Springs, WA [29°27’S, 115°46’E]; WADA 144669, 20km S if Cunderdin, WA [31°49’S, 117°14’E]; ANIC Numbers not provided, Coolgardie 40km W, WA [31°59’S, 120°50’E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

History of changes

• Anthrenocerus armstrongi Roach, A.M.E. 2000. Review of the Australian species of the dermestid genus Anthrenocerus Arrow (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(2): 175-224 [184] [junior homonym].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC unsexed, Fowlers Gap Research Station, NSW [31°05'S 141°42'E].

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus alisonae Liu, Zhou, Szito & Ślipiński, 2022. —
  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
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: leaf litter, scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Trogoderma alpicola Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [124].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Numbers not provided ("T 3675 AT" on mounting card), Alpine district, VIC [Lat/Long not provided].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.
• Trogoderma alpicorum Armstrong, J.W.T. 1942. On Australian Dermestidae. Part II. The genus Trogoderma Berthold. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67(5-6): 321-330 [330] [incorrect subsequent spelling].

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus alpicola (Blackburn, 1891). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Introduction

The validity of Eurhopalus alpicola is uncertain as the lectotype designated by Ślipiński et al. (2023) is the only known specimen of this species.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

History of changes

• Trogoderma antipodum Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [128].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, near Adelaide, SA.
• Trogoderma ellipticum Armstrong, J.W.T. 1942. On Australian Dermestidae. Part II. The genus Trogoderma Berthold. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67(5-6): 321-330 [325].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA Numbers not provided, Murray Bridge, SA [Lat/Long not provided].
  Paratype(s) ANIC Numbers not provided, Lucindale, SA [Lat/Long not provided].

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus antipodum (Blackburn, 1891). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

General References

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

Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941

History of changes

• Megatoma apicalis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [170].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K27400, Gayndah, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM K304851, Gayndah, QLD;
  Syntype(s) AM K304851, Gayndah, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941 [805].
• Trogoderma pectinifer Arrow, G.J. 1915. Notes on the coleopterous family Dermestidae and descriptions of some new forms in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 425-451 [429].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Baan Baa, NSW.
• Psacus mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K304869, Gayndah, QLD [25°38'S, 151°37'E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [132]
• Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus apicalis (Macleay, 1871). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

History of changes

• Trogoderma apicipenne Reitter, E. 1881. Eine neue Trogoderma aus Neuholland. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 25: 232 [232].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Australia (as Nova Hollandia); exact locality unknown.
• Trogoderma baldiense Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [127].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Mt Feathertop (as Mt Baldi, Victorian Alps), VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [132]

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus apicipenis (Reitter, 1881). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

History of changes

• Anthrenus (Neoanthrenus) armstrongielus Kadej, M. & Háva, J. 2013. The genus Neoanthrenus Armstrong, 1941 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Anthrenini): A new synonym of Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762. Zootaxa 3646(1): 87-92 [90] [replacement name].
• Neoanthrenus armstrongi Kalik, V. 1957. A new dermestid from Australia (Col.). Casopis Ceskoslovenské Spolecnosti Entomologické 54(1): 22-23 [22] [secondary homonym of A. armstrongi Mroczkowski, 1952].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMNS unsexed, Sydney, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus armstrongi (Kalík, 1957). —
  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
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anthrenocerus arrowi Armstrong, J.W.T. 1949. On Australian Dermestidae. Part V. Notes and the description of four new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 74: 107-111 [109].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC unsexed, Bogan River [Callubri H.S.], NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roach, A.M.E. 2000. Review of the Australian species of the dermestid genus Anthrenocerus Arrow (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(2): 175-224 [185].

  Type locality references:

  Armstrong, J.W.T. 1953. A definition of the place label "Bogan R., N.S. Wales, J. Armstrong". Australian Entomologist Supplement 1: i-iv [iv].
• Anthrenocerus bicolor Armstrong, J.W.T. 1943. On Australian Dermestidae. Part III. The genera Anthrenocerus Arrow and Orphinus Motsch.; also a note on the on the genus Cryptorhopalum Guér. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68(1-2): 57-63 [61] [misidentification].

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus arrowi (Armstrong, 1949). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Psacus attagenoides Pascoe, F.P. 1866. Notices of new or little known genera and species of Coleoptera. Part V. Journal of Entomology 2: 443-493, pls xviii-xix [Date published Jun. 1866] [446].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Gawler, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH, same data as Lectotype.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.
• Megatoma foveolata Lepesme, P. 1942. Un nouveau Megatoma d'Australie (Col. Dermestidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 46: 142 [142].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Háva, J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Supplementum 1: 1-196 [132]

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus attagenoides (Pascoe, 1866). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, SA, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Sydney Basin (SB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

History of changes

• Anthrenocerus bicolor Arrow, G.J. 1915. Notes on the coleopterous family Dermestidae and descriptions of some new forms in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 425-451 [444].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH unsexed, Adelaide River, NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roach, A.M.E. 2000. Review of the Australian species of the dermestid genus Anthrenocerus Arrow (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(2): 175-224 [190].

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus bicolor (Arrow, 1915). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mellivore (associated flora: Melaleuca sp. [MYRTACEAE] Tea-tree), scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anthrenus (Neoanthrenus) svatopluki Kadej, M. & Háva, J. 2013. The genus Neoanthrenus Armstrong, 1941 (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Anthrenini): A new synonym of Anthrenus Geoffroy, 1762. Zootaxa 3646(1): 87-92 [91] [replacement name].
• Neoanthrenus bilyi Háva, J. 2003. Neoanthrenus bilyi sp. n. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Anthrenini) from Western Australia. Folia Heyrovskyana 11(1): 47-50 [Date published 31/Jul/2003] [48] [junior secondary homonym of Anthrenus bilyi Háva, 2000].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM ♂, Lake Cronin, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus svatopluki (Kadej & Háva, 2013). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Menzies, Yellowdine and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Trogoderma blackburni Lea, A.M. 1908. The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 20(2): 143-207 [Date published March 31, 1908] [155].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV ("intact specimen with Ty underneath"), King Is., TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus blackburni (Lea, 1908). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

History of changes

• Trogoderma boganense Armstrong, J.W.T. 1942. On Australian Dermestidae. Part II. The genus Trogoderma Berthold. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67(5-6): 321-330 [325].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA, Bogan River, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA, same data as Lectotype; ANIC, same data as Lectotype.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus boganensis (Armstrong, 1942). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW: Darling Riverine Plains (DRP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

General References

Beal, R.S. 1960. Description, biology and notes on the identification of some Trogoderma larvae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). Technical Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture 1228: 1–25

History of changes

• Anthrenocerus brindabella Roach, A.M.E. 2000. Review of the Australian species of the dermestid genus Anthrenocerus Arrow (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(2): 175-224 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC unsexed, Blundells Creek Road, 3.5 km E of Piccadilly Circus, 850 m, ACT.

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus brindabella (Roach, 2000). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

ACT: Australian Alps (AA)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Eurhopalus brookfield Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1269, Brookfield Conservation Park, SA [34.21S, 139.31E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1209, 1212,1207 3 specimens, same data as Holotype; SAMA Numbers not provided 2 specimens, same data as Holotype; ANIC Numbers not provided 20 specimens, ca 20km NE Cervantes, WA; WADA Numbers not provided 3 specimens, ca 20km NE Cervantes, WA; WAM Numbers not provided 3 specimens, ca 20km NE Cervantes, WA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

SA, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS)

History of changes

• Eurhopalus broome Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 109418, on Derby RD, 15 km east of Broome, WA [Lat/Long not provided].
  Paratype(s) WAM 109417, same data as Holotype; ANIC, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Dampierland (DL)

History of changes

• Psacus callubriensis Armstrong, J.W.T. 1945. On Australian Dermestidae. Part IV. Notes and the description of a new genus and four new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70(1-2): 47-52 [48].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC Numbers not provided, Bogan River, Nandewar Range, NSW [Lat/Long not provided].
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC Numbers not provided, same data as Lectotype [Lat/Long not provided].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus callubriensis (Armstrong, 1945). —
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larvae: scavenger.

History of changes

• Eurhopalus canberra Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC Numbers not provided, Black Mountain SE Slope, ACT [35.16S, 149.06E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC Numbers not provided, Black Mountain, ACT [Lat/Long not provided].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

History of changes

• Eurhopalus carrabin Ślipiński, A., Szitó, A. & Zhou, Y-L. 2023. Revision of the Australian species previously known as Trogoderma Dejean (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 73(4): 797–941.

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC Numbers not provided, 12km E of Carrabin, WA [31.23S, 118.48E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC Numbers not provided, same data as Holotype; WADA 144751, 144750, 50932, 50934, 50929, 50931, 50933, 10km S of Beverley, WA [32°12’S, 116°56’E]; WADA 50948, 10km N of Yanchep, WA [31°28’S, 115°41’E]; WADA 50953, 10km N of Quairading, WA [31°56’S, 117°24’E]; WADA 50945, 35km S of Cataby, WA [31°1’S, 115°32’E]; CAS Numbers not provided, 15 miles west Merredin, WA [Lat/Long not provided]; CAS Numbers not provided, Darlington, WA [Lat/Long not provided].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

History of changes

• Trogoderma carteri Armstrong, J.W.T. 1942. On Australian Dermestidae. Part II. The genus Trogoderma Berthold. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67(5-6): 321-330 [328].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC Numbers not provided ♀, Bogan River, NSW.
  Paratype(s) Numbers not provided, same data as Holotype.