Anthrenus liliputianus

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Anthrenus liliputianus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dermestidae
Genus: Anthrenus
Subgenus: Nathrenus
Species:
A. liliputianus
Binomial name
Anthrenus liliputianus
Mulsant & Rey, 1868 [1]

Anthrenus (Nathrenus) liliputianus is a species of carpet beetle found in Egypt. [2] [3]

Description

Prothorax black, adorned on each side with a border formed of white scales, covering the outer quarter of the base, and at least the outer third of the anterior edge without a black spot in the middle; marked with a spot of white scales on the median part of its base.

Elytra varying from black to reddish-brown; each adorned with a circle of two bands formed of white scales: the circle extending from the suture almost to the external edge and from halfway up the base to two-fifths: the first transverse band towards the middle: the second towards four-fifths of their length. Abdomen covered with white scales, with little or no mark near the anterior edge of the 2nd to 5th segments with a transverse blackish stripe.

Length: 1.3mm. Width: 1mm.

Head black, covered with whitish scales. Antennae extending to a third of the sides of the prothorax; with 11 segments, of which the last three form the club. Thorax and abdomen covered with white or ash-gray scales; the abdomen without or almost without spots on the sides of the segments. Legs reddish. Femora adorned with whitish scales. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon". Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 15. Lyon: Société Linnéenne de Lyon: 159. 15 January 1868.
  2. Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  3. Herrmann, Andreas (2024). "Dermestidae (Abbildungen)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.