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Found in wasp and spider nests, insect collections, seeds, and various plant products. (BugGuide)
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Asian Carpet Beetle in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/29/2020). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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| Anthrenus coloratus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Family: | Dermestidae |
| Genus: | Anthrenus |
| Subgenus: | Anthrenops |
| Species: | A. coloratus
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| Binomial name | |
| Anthrenus coloratus | |
Anthrenus coloratus, the Asian carpet beetle,[2] is a beetle species in the family Dermestidae. It is known from Asia, Europe, Africa, North America (Mexico, United States) and it has been introduced in Ecuador.[3][4]
References
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- ^ Reitter, E. (1880). "Bestimnrangstabellen der europäischen Celeopteren. III. Enthaltend die Familien Scaphidiidae, Lathridiidae und Dermestidae". Verh. Kaiserl.-König. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien. 30: 91.
- ^ "Anthrenus coloratus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ Herrmann, Andreas (2024). "Dermestidae (Abbildungen)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Beal, R. S. Jr. (2003). "Annotated Checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae with Revised Key to the Genera". The Coleopterists Bulletin, vol. 57, no. 4, 391–404.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Ross H. Arnett. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
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