Dermestes ater
Author(s): Simon Hinkley & Ken Walker, Museum Victoria
Source: PaDIL
| Vernacular names | |
|---|---|
| • Deutsch: | Aas-Speckkäfer |
| • English: | black larder beetle |
| • Français: | dermeste noir |
Dermestes ater de Geer 1774 - (black larder beetle)
The beetles is found on animal skins in Africa and South America and has been introduced into Europe. It also attacks dried fish and other dried animal products and is further considered a predator of some pests.
Publications covering Dermestes ater
Phytoparasitica (2020) 48, 247-260
Magdalena Cerkowniak, Mieczyslawa I. Bogus, Emilia Wlóka, Piotr Stepnowski and Marek Golebiowski (2020)
The composition of lipid profiles in different developmental stages of Dermestes ater and Dermestes maculatus and their susceptibility to the entomopathogenic fungus Conidiobolus coronatus
Annals of the Entomological Society of America (2006) 99, 121-143
C.E. Causton, S.B. Peck, B.J. Sinclair, L. Roque-Albelo, C.J. Hodgson and B. Landry (2006)
Alien insects: Threats and implications for conservation of Galápagos islands
Mitteilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft für allgemeine und angewandte Entomologie (2001) 13, 149-160
Joachim Schliesske (2001)
Zum Wandel der Transportraum-Entomologie
[On the change of cargo space entomology]
International Journal of Acarology (1998) 24, 231-236
K. Ramaraju, B. Rajasekaran and M. Mohanasundaram (1998)
A new Podapolipus species (Acari : Podapolipidae) from Dermestes ater (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from Tamil Nadu, India
- Other images of Dermestes ater (PaDIL - click to enlarge)
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