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  3. Arthropods
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  6. Carpet, Powderpost, Deathwatch, and Tooth-necked Beetles
  7. Carpet, Powderpost, and Deathwatch Beetles

superfamily

Carpet, Powderpost, and Deathwatch Beetles

Bostrichoidea

Includes
146 native 26 introduced 13 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Bostrichoidea is a superfamily of beetles. It is the type superfamily of the infraorder Bostrichiformia.

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Children

  • Deathwatch, Spider, and Wood-borer Beetles 64 native
  • Hide Beetles 48 native
  • Horned Powderpost Beetles 34 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native carpet, powderpost, and deathwatch beetles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Anthrenus lepidus 1,616 observations
  • Tricolored Carpet Beetle Trogoderma sternale 992 observations
  • Dark Carpet Beetle Orphilus subnitidus 479 observations
  • Skin Beetle Trogoderma anthrenoides 251 observations
  • Cryptorhopalum apicale 246 observations
  • Lanorus aequalis 234 observations
  • Trogoderma simplex 231 observations
  • Skin Beetle Dermestes caninus 214 observations
  • Common Carrion Beetle Dermestes marmoratus 181 observations
  • Cryptorhopalum triste 132 observations
  • Anthrenus sophonisba 114 observations
  • Anthrenus castaneae 109 observations
  • Hide and Tallow Dermestid Dermestes talpinus 108 observations
  • Megatoma variegata 97 observations
  • Dermestes fasciatus 92 observations
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