Citations & References (6)
Type / BadgesPage
Linnaeus C.V. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae: Laurenti Salvii, iv + 824 + 1 pp.
Original Description
p. 355
Hinton H.E. (1945). A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London: Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, viii+443 pp.
Immature / Larva
p. 250
Beal R.S. (1970). A taxonomic and biological study of species of Attagenini (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in the United States and Canada. Entomologica Americana 45: 141-235 (Publisher: [Lawrence, Kan., etc.], New York Entomological Society [etc.],).
Immature / Larva
p. 191
Zhantiev R.D. (1976). Жуки-кожееды (семейство Dermestidae) фауны СССР [Skin beetles (family Dermestidae) of the USSR fauna]. Moskva: Izdatelstvo Moskovskogo Universiteta, 180 pp.
Immature / Larva
p. 98
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.
Molecular Data
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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.
Type Designation
p. 71

Literature and Synonymy

  • Dermestes pellio Linnaeus, 1758:355 [UZIU]
  • Le Dermeste à deux points blancs: Geoffroy, 1762:100 (unnamed)
  • Dermestes bipunctatus DeGeer, 1774:197 [NHRS]
  • Dermestes macellarius Fabricius, 1781:63 [ZMUC]
  • Dermestes cylindricornis Schrank, 1785:315 [?]
  • Dermestes pellio var.: Zschach, 1788:5
  • Dermestes pellio var. Zschach: Gmelin, 1790:1593
  • Dermestes atra Herbst, 1791:95 [ZMUB]
  • Megatoma schrankii Kugelann, 1792:480 [MZPW]
  • Dermestes ater: Panzer, 1795:96
  • Dermestes notatus Cederhielm, 1798:41 [ZMAS]
  • Attagenus macellarius: Latreille, 1802:121
  • Attagenus pellio: Leach, 1815:94
  • Megatoma pellio: Cristofori & Jan, 1832:30
  • Attagenus pellio var. impunctata Linnaeus: Gistel, 1829:19 (nn)
  • Attagenus pellio var. impunctata Linnaeus: Gistel, 1834:15 (nn)
  • Attagenus fruteti Grimmer, 1841:39 [?]
  • Attagenus marcellarius [sic!]: Murray, 1853:44
  • Eunorops pellio: Gistel, 1856:361
  • Attagenus quisquiliorum Gistel, 1857:71 [?]
  • Attagenus pellio ab. sexmaculatus Stierlin, 1900:585 [?]
  • Attagenus Schranki [sic!]: Dalla Torre, 1911:55
  • Attagenus bipunctatus: Wradatsch, 1914:152
  • Attagenus quisquiliorum: Strand, 1917:87
  • Attagenus pelio [sic!]: Obenberger, 1933:245
  • Attagenus pelio [sic!]: Schaitter, 1870: Burakowski et al. 1986:22
  • Attagenus pellio: Háva, 2007c:57
  • Attagenus pellio: Smith et al., 2020:8
Biology
Larva: Zhantiev, 1976:98 ;Beal, 1970:191 ;Hinton, 1945:250

Distribution

Africa

America (South & Central)

Asia

Australia & Oceania

Europe

North America

General Information

iNaturalist Gallery (Attagenus pellio)

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