DERMESTIDAE Latreille, 1804
(carpet, museum and larder beetles)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Anthrenus
museum beetles
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 25 images
Attagenus
carpet beetles
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 5 images
Ctesias serra
Cobweb Beetle
Species 1 ident. refs
Dermestes
a genus of larder beetles
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 		Genus 1 subtaxa 9 images
Megatoma undata
a museum or larder beetle
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 		Species 3 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyDERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles)
SuperfamilyBOSTRICHOIDEA (wood boring, powder post and hide beetles)
Series Bostrichiformia (wood boring, powder post and hide beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Herrmann, A. Dermestidae (Coleoptera) of the world www.dermestidae.com/
Mound, L. (ed) 1989 Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification Economic Series, No 15, Seventh Edition edition, 68pp, British Museum (Natural History)
() Peacock, E.R. 1993 Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their Relatives (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derdontidae) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, part 3, 144pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles)
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