Skin beetles
Anthrenus verbasci
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Infraorder: Bostrichiformia Superfamily: Bostrichoidea Family: Dermestidae Latreille, 1804
Genera
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The skin beetles or Dermestidae (Gyllenhaal 1808) are a beetle family. The family includes about 700 species found worldwide. The common names "carpet beetle", "larder beetle", "bacon beetle", "museum beetle", or "bow bug" apply more specifically to some of the sub-groups of this family. GFDL Wikispecies logo File links The following pages link to this file: Solanaceae Species Asterias Homo (genus) Human Wikipedia:Template messages/Links Wikipedia:Template messages/All Homo floresiensis User talk:Tuneguru Template:Wikispecies Categories: GFDL images ... Wikispecies is a sister project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation that anybody can edit with a great potential use to students and researchers. ... Leonard Gyllenhaal (13 December 1752 – 13 May 1840), Swedish military officer and entomologist. ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Wikispecies has information related to: Coleoptera Beetles are the most diverse group of insects. ... In biological classification, family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is 1) a rank or 2) a taxon in that rank. ... In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...

They are generally of a compact or round shape, ranging in size from 1 to 12 mm, and of a dark overall color; most are densely covered with scales or setae, some with patterns of white, yellow, red, or brown. The (usually) clubbed antennae fit into deep grooves. The hind femurs also fit into recesses of the coxa. A seta is a stiff hair, wierd, culy, things bristle, or bristle-like process or part of an organism. ... For other uses, see Antenna. ... Theta Leonis (θ Leo / θ Leonis) is a star in the constellation Leo. ...

Dermestids have a variety of habits; most genera are scavengers that feed on dry animal or plant material such as skin or pollen. Members of Dermestes are found in animal carcasses, while others may be found in mammal, bird, bee, or wasp nests. Harvestman eating the tail of a five-lined skink The word scavenger, in zoology, refers to animals that consume already dead organic life-forms. ... Subclasses Allotheria* Order Multituberculata (extinct) Order Volaticotheria (extinct) Order Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Order Triconodonta (extinct) Prototheria Order Monotremata Theria Infraclass Marsupialia Infraclass Eutheria The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species... Aves redirects here. ... Families Andrenidae Apidae Colletidae Halictidae Megachilidae Melittidae Stenotritidae Bee collecting pollen Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. ... Suborder Symphyta Apocrita See text for families. ...

They are used in natural history museums to clean animal skeletons. Some dermestid species, commonly called "bow bugs," infest violin cases, feeding on the bow hair. For other similarly-named museums see Museum of Natural History. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... A cello bow In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ...

Thaumaglossa only lives in the egg cases of mantids, while Trogoderma species are pests of grain. For the self-defence technique, see Praying mantis kung fu. ... This article is about cereals in general. ...

The grub of a larder beetle, (Dermestes lardarius)

Dermestidae damage to a Manduca quinquemaculata in an insect collection Binomial name Manduca quinquemaculata Linnaeus, 1763 The Tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata L.) is a green caterpillar, the larval form of the Five-spotted Hawk moth moth of the Sphingidae (Sphinx) family common throughout the American continent. ...

Important works

Identification

• Hinton, H.E., 1945 A monograph of the beetles associated with stored products. 1, 387-395 British Museum (Natural History), London.Keys to world adults and larvae,genera and species;excellent figures, full species information.
• Freude, H.; Harde, K.W.; Lohse, G.A., 1979 Dermestidae. Die Käfer Mitteleuropas 6: Diversicornia (Lycidae — Byrrhidae) 1206 text figs. 367pp. Goecke & Evers. Text in German, the Dermestidae are on pages 304–327.

External links

• Dermestidae-Literature
• Russian Atlas of Carpet Beetles-excellent images
• Dermestidae website

References

• John M. Kingsolver, "Dermestidae", in Ross H. Arnett, Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, American Beetles (CRC Press, 2002), vol. 2.
• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 edition of The Grocer's Encyclopedia.