Species Dermestes (Dermestes) haemorrhoidalis Küster, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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)

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