Dermestidae

family
Latreille, 1804 [p. 142]
Citations & References (16)
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Latreille P.A. (1804). Tableau méthodique des insectes. In: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture et à l'économie rurale et domestique, par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Paris: Déterville, pp. 129-200.
Earliest known publication to establish family Dermestidae, according to Bouchard et al. (2011: p. 333)
Original Description
p. 142
Latreille P.A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite aux oeuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par C. S. Sonnini. Paris: F. Dufart (No. IX), pp. 1-416, pls. 74-80.
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p. 233
Latreille P.A. (1807). Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundem ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Parisiis et Argentorati: A. Koenig, pp. 1-280.
Publication used in Mroczkowski (1968) and Hava (2003) catalogues as the earliest literature to establish Dermestidae
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p. 3
Dalla Torre K.W. (1911). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 33: Nosodendridae, Byrrhidae, Dermestidae. Berlin: W. Junk (Coleopterorum Catalogus), 96 pp.
Catalogue
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Mroczkowski M. (1968). Distribution of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) of the world with a catalogue of all known species. Annales Zoologici 26(3): 15-191.
Catalogue
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Lawrence J.F., Newton A.F. (1995). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). In: Pakaluk J., Ślipiński S.A. (eds.), Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera. Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Warszawa: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, pp. 779-1006 + 48 (index).
Classification
p. 861-863
Zhantiev R.D. (2000). Система и филогения жуков-кожеедов (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). [Classification and Phylogeny of skin beetles (Coleoptera, Dermestidae)]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 79(3): 297-311 (in Russian, English summary).
PhylogenyClassificationIdentification KeyMorphology
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Háva J. (2003). World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Brandýs nad Labem (Studie a Zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ v Brandýse nad Labem a Staré Boleslavi, Supplementum), pp. 1-196.
Catalogue
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Beal R.S. (2003). Annotated Checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae with Revised Key to the Genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin 57(4): 391-404.
DistributionIdentification KeyClassification
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Háva J. (2004). World keys to the genera and subgenera of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) with descriptions, nomenclature and distributional records. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Natural History 60(3-4): 149-164.
Identification KeyClassification
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Háva J. (2007). Dermestidae. In: Löbl I., Smetana A. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 4. Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books, pp. 57, 299-320.
Dermestidae catalogue, restricted to Palearctic area
CatalogueDistribution
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Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., Davies A., Alonso-Zarazaga M., Lawrence J., Lyal C., Newton A., Reid C., Schmitt M., Slipinski A., Smith A. (2011). Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1-972.
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p. 55, 333, 891
Háva J. (2015). World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Leiden ; Boston: Brill (World catalogue of insects, volume 13), 419 pp.
Catalogue
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Zhou Y.L., Nicholls J.A., Liu Z.H., Hartley D., Szito A., Ślipiński A., Zwick A. (2022). Molecular Phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) Reveals the Polyphyletic Nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the Taxonomic Placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 2.
RedescriptionClassification
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Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., Davies A.E., Cai C. (2024). On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 1194: 1-981.
Classification
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Háva J. (2025). World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Private Entomological Laboratory and Collection, Únětice/Praha, 368 pp.
Catalogue; [p. 18] correct article for Latreille, 1804:142 is missing from bibliography [p. 302] (a different later publication on Dermestidae is present)
Catalogue
p. 1-368

Literature and Synonymy

  • Dermestideae: Gyllenhall, 1808:145
  • Dermestides: Leach, 1815:94
  • Dermestida: Leach, 1815:94
  • Dermestites: Newman, 1834:416
  • Dermestins: Laporte de Castelnau, 1840:32
  • Dermestida: Heer, 1841b:434
  • Dermestae: Redtenbacher, 1845:52
  • Dermestoidae: Agassiz, 1846:120
  • Dermestoidae: Klug, 1855:10
  • Scuticolles: Mulsant & Rey, 1868:1
  • Dermestaires: Mulsant & Rey, 1868:22
  • Dermestates: Mulsant & Rey, 1868:23
  • Dermastidae [sic!] Kanouh & Basheer, 2023b:7

Type Taxon

  • Dermestes Linnaeus, 1758:342

General Information

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