Dermestes ater

species
DeGeer, 1774 [p. 223]
Gallery page (A. Herrmann)
Type deposited in NHRS
Citations & References (9)
Type / Badges
Page
de Geer 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
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.
as Dermestes cadaverinus
Immature / Larva
p. 186
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
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
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
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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Biology
Larva: Rey, 1887:186 ;Rees, 1947:10 ;Prins, 1984:219 ;Kiselyova & McHugh, 2006:473 ;Peacock, 1993 ;Díaz-Aranda et al., 2018 ;Zhantiev & Volkova, 1998:896

Distribution

Africa

America (South & Central)

Asia

Australia & Oceania

Europe

North America

Taxon details

iNaturalist Gallery (Dermestes ater)

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