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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Beetles
  6. Carpet, Powderpost, and Deathwatch Beetles
  7. Hide Beetles

family

Hide Beetles

Dermestidae

Includes
48 native 22 introduced 4 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Megatominae 26 native
  • Dermestinae 12 native
  • Attageninae 8 native
  • Orphilinae 2 native
  • Trinodinae

Range

United States

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

Most observed native hide 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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