Type deposited in NHRS
Citations & References (10)
Type / Badges
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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
Hinton H.E. (1945). A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London: Order of the Trustees of the British Museum (No. 1), viii+443 pp.
Immature / Larva
p. 250
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. 13
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. 214
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. (1999). Личинки жуков-кожеедов рода Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) России и сопредельных стран. 2. подрод Dermestinus. [Larvae of Dermestid beetles from the Genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) in Russia and adjacent countries. 2. Dermestinus subgenus.]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 78: 170-180.
Immature / Larva
p. 174
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 (Dermestinus) maculatus — Shows full Palearctic distributions (other editions have it shortened to continents)
DistributionCatalogue
p. 301
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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Henríquez-Valido P., Santana J., Morquecho-Izquier A., Rodríguez-Rodríguez A., Huchet J.B. (2025). Insects in the far West: Burial practices on El Hierro Island (Canary Islands, Spain; ca. 6th-11th centuries) reconstructed via funerary archaeoentomology. Journal of Archaeological Science 173(106120): 1-11.
Paleontology
p. 5, Fig. 3i
Henríquez-Valido P., Brito-Mayor A., Rodríguez-Rodríguez A., Morales J., Santana J., Brito-Abrante I., Huchet J.B. (2026). Decomposing in the dark. Experimental approaches to funerary archaeoentomology in volcanic caves. Forensic Science International: Synergy 12(100653): 1-15.
Dermestes frischii on figure [misidentified as D. maculatus; but likely both species present on the research site, D. maculatus was determined by spine of the elytra by authors - P. Henríquez-Valido, pers. comm., 20 May 2026]
Paleontology
p. 4
Biology
Larva: Rees, 1947:13 ;Prins, 1984:214 ;Peacock, 1993 ;Díaz-Aranda et al., 2018 ;Zhantiev & Volkova, 1999:174 ;Hinton, 1945:250

Distribution

Africa

America (South & Central)

Asia

Australia & Oceania

Europe

North America

Taxon details

iNaturalist Gallery (Dermestes maculatus)

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