Varied Carpet Beetle Anterior | Varied Carpet Beetle Ventral | |||||
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: | Antennae | ||||
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) | |||||
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