Dermestes

Belongs within: Bostrichoidea.

Dermestes is a genus of scavenging beetles commonly found on animal carcasses in an advanced (butyric) stage of decomposition (Kingsolver 2002).

Characters (from Kingsolver 2002): Species 5.5 to 12 mm in length; head without an ocellus; antenna with apical club; pronotum without sublateral carinae; legs more or less retractile; procoxae large and contiguous at apices; metacoxal plate not extending to sides of body; hind femur received in groove in coxa; abdomen with five visible
sterna.

<==Dermestes Linnaeus 1758 [Dermestinae, Dermestini]L58
    |--D. aterMC13
    |--D. australisB35
    |--D. bicolorR13
    |--D. cadaverinus Fab. 1775 [incl. D. caninus]FS90
    |--D. capucinus Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. carinusK02
    |--D. carnivorus Fab. 1775 [incl. D. humeralis, D. versicolor]FS90
    |--D. clavicornis Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. colon Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. eustatius Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. fenestralis Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. frischiG89
    |--D. haemorrhoidalisMC13
    |--D. hemipterus Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. laniariusC01
    |--D. lardarius Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. larvalis Cockerell 1917P92
    |--D. maculatusOM91
    |--D. melanocephalus Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. mollis Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. murinus Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. nidumSWK87
    |--D. pectinicornis Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. pellio Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. pertinax Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. pilula Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. psyllius Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. scanicus Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. scarabaeoides Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. scrophulariae Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. sibiricusC01
    |--D. stercoreus Linnaeus 1758L58
    |--D. surinamensis Linnaeus 1758L58
    `--D. vulpinusC01

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B35] Boisduval, J. B. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l’Astrolabe. Exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d’Urville. Faune entomologique de l’océan Pacifique, avec l’illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage vol. 2. Coléoptères et autres ordres. J. Tastu: Paris.

[C01] Csiki, E. 1901. Bogarak [Coleopteren]. In: Horváth, G. (ed.) Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazása [Dritte Asiatische Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] vol. 2. Zichy Jenő Gróf Harmadik Ázsiai Utazásának Állattani Eredményei [Zoologische Ergebnisse der Dritten Asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Eugen Zichy] pp. 75–120. Victor Hornyánszky: Budapest, and Karl W. Hierseman: Leipzig.

[FS90] Fleutiaux, E., & A. Sallé. 1890. Liste des coléoptères de la Guadeloupe et descriptions d’espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 6^e série 9: 351–484.

[G89] Gestro, R. 1889. Viaggio ab Assab nel Mar Rosso dei signori G. Doria ed O. Beccari con il R. Avviso “Esploratore” dal 16 Novembre 1879 al 26 Febbraio 1880.—IV. Coleotteri. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2^a, 7: 5-72.

[K02] Kingsolver, J. M. 2002. Dermestidae Gyllenhal 1808. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J. H. Frank (eds) American Beetles vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea pp. 228–232. CRC Press.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[MC13] Majer, J. D., S. K. Callan, K. Edwards, N. R. Gunawardene & C. K. Taylor. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 13–112.

[OM91] Okamoto, M., & K. Matsumoto. 1991. Observations on the behavior of the hypopus of Lardoglyphus konoi. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 555–559. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[P92] Poinar, G. O., Jr. 1992. Life in Amber. Stanford University Press: Stanford.

[R13] Reuter, O. M. 1913. Lebensgewohnheiten und Instinkte der Insekten bis zum Erwachen der sozialen Instinkte. R. Friedländer & Sohn: Berlin.

[SWK87] Snyder, N. F. R., J. W. Wiley & C. B. Kepler. 1987. The Parrots of Luquillo: Natural history and conservation of the Puerto Rican parrot. Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology: Los Angeles.