Species Dermestes (Dermestes) ater DeGeer, 1774

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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)

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