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The varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) is a 3 mm-long beetle belonging to the family Dermestidae, positioned in subgenus Nathrenus.They are a common species, often considered a pest of domestic houses and, particularly, natural history museums, where the larvae may damage natural fibers and can damage carpets, furniture, clothing, and insect collections.
Larvae of the black carpet beetle Attagenus megatoma may grow up to 1 ⁄ 2 inch (13 mm) and be yellow to brown in color. Other types of carpet beetle are regularly 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 inch (6.4 to 25.4 millimetres) long and covered with dark setae. Certain species have distinctive tufts of setae extending from their posterior end.
Dermestes unicolor Brahm, 1790. The black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor) is a 3–5-millimetre-long (0.12–0.20 in) beetle that can be a serious household pest. The larvae grow to 7 mm (0.28 in) in length, are reddish brown in colour and covered with bristles. The larval form feeds on natural fibres, damaging carpets, furniture and clothing.
Trogoderma variabile. Ballion, 1878. Synonyms. Trogoderma parabile Beal, 1954. Trogoderma variabile, commonly known as the warehouse beetle, [1] is a species of carpet beetle in the family Dermestidae. It is found across Europe, Asia, Central America, North America and Oceania.
Anthrenus scrophulariae var. flavida Dalla Torre, 1879. Anthrenus (Anthrenus) scrophulariae, also known as the common carpet beetle[2] or buffalo carpet beetle, is a species of beetle originally found in Europe, the Middle East and the Nearctic, which has now spread to most of the world. Adult beetles feed on pollen and nectar, but the larvae ...
Zhantiev, 1973. Attagenus smirnovi, the brown carpet beetle, is a species of beetle from the family Dermestidae. It is a synanthropic pest which lives in human buildings, homes and museums and eats wool-textiles, carpets, skin and fur. [1] Due to its specific epithet smirnovi, the beetle is also known in the United Kingdom as the 'Vodka beetle ...
Anthrenocerus australis. Anthrenocerus australis is a species of beetle belonging to the Dermestidae family. [1] It is commonly known as the Australian carpet beetle and is one of the most researched of the thirty-one species in the Anthrenocerus genus. [2] This is generally attributed to its prevalence throughout Australia and New Zealand and ...
Anthrenus carpet beetles are small beetles a few (1.8-4mm) millimeters long with a rounded shape. Their antennae bear small clubs at the end, which are larger in the males than in females. Many have a delicate pattern, with a dark body covered in colorful scales of various brown, tan, red, whitish and grey hues.