Dermestes ater

species
DeGeer, 1774 [p. 223]
Gallery page (A. Herrmann)
Type deposited in NHRS
Synonyms (1)
Dermestes cadaverinus Fabricius, 1775
synonym
Citations & References (32)
Type / Badges
Page
DeGeer C. (1774). Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. A. Stockholm: De l'imprimerie de Pierre Hesselberg (No. 4), 457 pp.
Original Description
p. 223
Fabricius J.C. (1775). Systema Entomologie, sistens Insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae: Officina Libraria Kortii, xxxii + 832 pp.
= Dermestes cadaverinus
Synonym Description
p. 55
Thunberg C.P. (1781). Dissertatio Entomologica novas Insectorum species, sistens. Cujus Partem Primam. Upsaliae: J. F. Edman, 28 pp.
as Dermestes piceus
p. 8
Fabricius J.C. (1787). Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae: C. G. Proft (No. 1-2), pp. i + 348 pp., ii + 382 pp.
as Dermestes felinus
p. 34
GERMAR E. F. 1824: Insectorum Species novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae. I - Coleoptera. Halae: J. C. Hendelii & Filii, xxiv + 624 pp., 2 pls.
as Dermestes domesticus
p. 83
Erichson W.F. (1846). Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Erste Abtheilung. Coleoptera. Berlin: Nicholaische Buchhandlung (No. 3), pp. 419-463.
as Dermestes cadaverinus ab. domesticus
p. 430
GEBLER F. A. VON 1847: Verzeichniss der im Kolywano-Woskresenskischen Huttenbezirke Süd-West Sibiriens. Beobachteten Kaefer mit Bemerkungen und Beschreibungen. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 20: 391-512.
as Dermestes domesticus
p. 446
Montrouzier P. (1860). Essai sur la Faune Entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et Des iles des Pins, Art, Lifu, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3(8): 229-308, 1 pl.
as Dermestes hispidulus
p. 264
MOTSCHULSKY V. I. 1866: Catalogue des Insectes recus du Japon. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 39: 163-200.
as Dermestes chinensis
p. 168
Murray A. (1867). III.— List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(115): 20-23.
as Dermestes subcostatus
p. 22
SALVAÑÁ COMAS J. M. 1870: Apuntes para la geografía y fauna entomológicas de Mataró. Madrid: Imprenta á cargo de Gregorio Juste, 44 pp.
= Dermestes cadaverinus (as Dermestes cadavericus [sic!])
p. 16
HEYDEN L. VON 1881: Catalog der Coleopteren von Sibirien mit Einscluss derjenigen der Turanischen Länder, Turkestans und der chinesischen Grenzgebiete. Mit specialler Angabe der einzelnen Fundorte in Sibirien und genauer Citirung der darauf bezüglichen einzelnen Arbeiten nach einegen Vergleich, sowie mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die geographische Verbreitung der eizelnen Arten über die Grenzländer, namentlich Europa und Deutschland. Berlin: Deutsche Entomologische Gesellschaft, xxiv + 224 pp.
as Dermestes cadaverinus var. subsulcatus
p. 98
Godard M.A. (1882). Description d´une espéce nouvelle de Dermestide. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 29: 383-384.
as Dermestes favarcqui
p. 383
Rey C. (1887). Essai d'etudes sur certaines larves de Coléoptères et description de quelques especes inedites ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 33: 131-256.
= Dermestes cadaverinus
Immature / Larva
p. 186
Everts E. (1905). [Dermestids that might potentially be discovered in the Netherlands]. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 48: xxx.
= Dermestes cadaverinus
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p. xxx
Blackwelder R.E. (1945). Checklist of the Coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America the West Indies, and South America. Part 3. Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum, 185), pp. iii-iv + 343-550.
as Dermestes ater var. domestica
p. 395
Rees B.E. (1947). Taxonomy of the larvae of some North American species of the genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 49: 1-14.
Immature / Larva
p. 10
Lepesme P. (1949). Révision des Dermestes (Col. Dermestidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France 115(1): 37-68.
as Dermestes ater
p. 61
Pic M. (1951). Descriptions diverses et notes. Diversités Entomologiques 8: 7-16.
as Dermestes rufoapicalis
p. 7
Mroczkowski M. (1968). Distribution of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) of the world with a catalogue of all known species. Annales Zoologici 26(3): 15-191.
as Dermestes ater var. subsulcatus
p. 60
Prins A.J. (1984). Morphological and biological notes on some South African Arthropods associated with decaying matter. Part 3. The families Dermestidae, Cantharidae, Melyridae, Tenebrionidae and Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera). Annal of the South African Museum 94(4): 203-304.
Immature / Larva
p. 219
Peacock E.R. (1993). Adults and larvae of hide, larder, and carpet beetles and their relatives (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and of Derodontid beetle (Coleoptera: Derodontidae). Royal Entomological Society of London (No. 3), pp. 1-144.
Immature / LarvaIdentification Key
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Zhantiev R.D., Volkova T.G. (1998). Личинки жуков-кожеедов рода Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) России и сопредельных стран. 1. подрод Dermestes [Larvae of Dermestid Beetles of the Genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) of Russia and Adjacent Countries: 1. Subgenus Dermestes]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 77(8): 891-897.
Immature / Larva
p. 896
Averensky A.I. (1999). Каталог жуков Якутии [The catalogue of beetles of Yakutia]. Yakutsk: Yakutsk Scientific Centre SD RAS, 77 pp.
as Dermestes cadaverinus var. domesticus [sic!]
p. 31
Kiselyova T., McHugh J.V. (2006). A phylogenetic study of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) based on larval morphology. Systematic Entomology 31(3): 469-507.
Immature / Larva
p. 473
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.
as Dermestes (Dermestes) ater —
Shows full Palearctic distributions (other editions have it shortened to continents)
CatalogueDistribution
p. 299
YAN X., ZHOU H., SHEN Z., LI W., GUO D., SONG Y., LAN S. & ZHANG J. 2010: National investigations of stored grain arthropods in China. Pp. 212-218. In: CARVALHO M. O. et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection. Portugal, Estoril.
as Dermestes ater domesticus [sic!]
p. 214
Háva J. (2017). Contribution to the knowledge of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) deposited in Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, with descriptions of three new species. Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 13(2): 287-297.
as Dermestes ater ab. ceylonicus Kalík (un)
p. 288
Díaz-Aranda L.M., Martín-Vega D., Baz A., Cifrián B. (2018). Larval identification key to necrophagous Coleoptera of medico-legal importance in the western Palaearctic. International Journal of Legal Medicine 132(6): 1795-1804.
Immature / LarvaIdentification Key
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Wu H., Hu J., Qu D., Li J. (2020). The complete mitochondrial genome of the Dermestes ater DeGeer (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5(3): 3465-3466.
as Dermestes ater
p. 3483
Baek I.S., Kim N.Y., Moon T.Y., Kang T., Choi J., Park S.H., Lee K., Kim A.Y., Park S.H. (2023). Estimating the Post-mortem Interval Using Black Larder Beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae): A Case Study of Cats Abandoned Indoors in Daegu, Korea. Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 47(2): 47-51.
as Dermestes haemorrhoidalis [sic!]
p. 49
Háva J. (2026). Remarks and new faunistic records on Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 22(2): 331-348.
as Dermestes (Dermestes) ater
Distribution
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Biology
Larva: Rees, 1947:10 ;Prins, 1984:219 ;Kiselyova & McHugh, 2006:473 ;Peacock, 1993 ;Díaz-Aranda et al., 2018 ;Zhantiev & Volkova, 1998:896 ;Rey, 1887:186

Distribution

Africa

America (South & Central)

Asia

Australia & Oceania

Europe

North America

Taxon details

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