Maintainers

Andrew Rosenthal and Sarah Mahie: ongoing support and maintenance of the site/database.

Special Thanks

Thanks to the following people for providing valuable resources and inspiration:

  • Andreas Herrmann (ResearchGate): for creating the gallery with Dermestidae photos, which was a great aid in identifying countless species records and the initial spark for this website!
    Also for providing information from his personal database and sharing of the images.
  • Jiří Háva (ResearchGate): for maintaining the 'World Catalogue of the Dermestidae' in the last >20 years, which greatly helped shape this website and for work on taxonomy of Dermestidae
  • Graham J. Holloway (ResearchGate): for aiding community science with his articles and conducting important revisionary works in Dermestidae in the last years

Additional acknowledgments

We also want to thank the following people for the provided help and information:

Alexey Kovalev, Boris Büche, Coryn Primm, cnestus, Javier Martínez Coque, Goro G. ("Saber Animal") and all past and present researchers of the family Dermestidae