DERMESTIDAE Latreille, 1804
(carpet, museum and larder beetles)

Interactions where DERMESTIDAE is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
larva is parasitoid host of larva Laelius pedatus a bethylid wasp Hymenoptera: Bethylidae Parasitoid wasps new to Britain (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Eurytomidae, Braconidae & Bethylidae), Notton, D.G., Popovici, O.A., van Achterberg, C., de Rond, J. & Burn, J.T., 2014
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Bethylidae/Laelius pedatus/Laelius pedatusa bethylid wasplarva Animal / parasitoid /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Dermestidae/Dermestidaecarpet, museum and larder beetleslarva larva is parasitoid of larva

Author & YearTitleSource
Notton, D.G., Popovici, O.A., van Achterberg, C., de Rond, J. & Burn, J.T., 2014Parasitoid wasps new to Britain (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae, Eurytomidae, Braconidae & Bethylidae)European Journal of Taxonomy Vol 99: 1-20.

DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Ctesias serra
Cobweb Beetle
Species 1 references
Dermestes
a genus of larder beetles
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyDERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles)
SuperfamilyBOSTRICHOIDEA (wood boring, powder post and hide beetles)
Series Bostrichiformia (wood boring, powder post and hide beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Herrmann, A. Dermestidae (Coleoptera) of the world www.dermestidae.com/
Mound, L. (ed) 1989 Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification Economic Series, No 15, Seventh Edition edition, 68pp, British Museum (Natural History)
() Peacock, E.R. 1993 Adults and Larvae of Hide, Larder and Carpet Beetles and their Relatives (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and of Derodontid Beetles (Coleoptera: Derdontidae) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, part 3, 144pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 42 images of DERMESTIDAE (carpet, museum and larder beetles)
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