Varied Carpet Beetle: Profile

Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Skin Beetle (Dermestidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci)

This Photo:

Profile

Thank you Lila (FairyPossum) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
A small beetle, ~3mm long, that has cost millions to protect against severely damaging the world's museum specimens.

Similar Species: Brown Globular Springtail (Symphypleona sp ES01)

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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