page_title: Anthrenus
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Anthrenus / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Description: Anthrenus scrophulariae Deutsch: Teppichkäfer Source: picture taken by Kurt Kulac at 2005-02-25 License: CC-BY-SA-2.5 and GNU FDL Location: Graz, (Austria) Camera: Nikon D100 Lens: Nikon 60mm Makro Exposure: 1/60, f22 Film / Speed: ISO 800
context_page_description: Anthrenus is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae, the skin beetles. One of several genera of carpet beetles, Anthrenus was historically placed in a subfamily Anthreninae, though presently included in the Megatominae. The genus Neoanthrenus is closely related.
  Anthrenus carpet beetles are small beetles a few millimetres long with a rather rounded shape. Their antennae bear small clubs at the end, which are plumper in males than in females. Many have a delicate and rather pretty pattern, with a dark body covered in colorful scales of various brown, tan, red, whitish and grey hues. These scales rub off easily, and old individuals are often partially devoid of them, showing the shining black elytra. A considerable number of subspecies and varieties have been named, but it is questionable whether these are all valid or simply refer to such age-related differences. The massive number of species has been divided into several subgenera, but these are not too firmly established. The small subgenus Helocerus for example is sometimes entirely included in Florilinus. Also, new species are being described every now and then.
context_section_description: Subgenus Anthrenus
  
  
   
  Anthrenus angustefasciatus
  Anthrenus armstrongi
  Anthrenus bartolozzii
  Anthrenus botswaniensis
  Anthrenus chiton Beal, 1998
  Anthrenus delicatus Kiesenwetter, 1851
  Anthrenus dorsatus
  Anthrenus ethiopicus
  Anthrenus festivus Erichson, 1846
  Anthrenus flavidulus
  Anthrenus flavipes J.L.LeConte, 1854 – furniture carpet beetle
  Anthrenus flavipes albopunctatus
  Anthrenus goliath Mulsant & Rey, 1868
  Anthrenus indicus
  Anthrenus kantneri
  Anthrenus katerinae
  Anthrenus kenyaensis
  Anthrenus latefasciatus
  Anthrenus lepidus LeConte, 1854
  Anthrenus merkli
  Anthrenus mesopotamicus
  Anthrenus miniopictus
  Anthrenus munroi Hinton, 1943
  Anthrenus namibicus
  Anthrenus nipponensis
   
  Anthrenus oceanicus Fauvel, 1903
  Anthrenus parvus Casey, 1900
  Anthrenus pfefferi
  Anthrenus picturatus
  Anthrenus picturatus arabicus
  Anthrenus picturatus hintoni
  Anthrenus picturatus makolskii
  Anthrenus picturatus melanoleucus
  Anthrenus pimpinellae Fabricius, 1775
  Anthrenus pimpinellae isabellinus Kuester, 1848
  Anthrenus pimpinellae mroczkowskii Kalík, 1954
  Anthrenus rotundulus
  Anthrenus scrophulariae (Linnaeus, 1758) – common carpet beetle
  Anthrenus scrophulariae var. albidus
  Anthrenus scrophulariae var. gravidus
  Anthrenus scrophulariae var. suecicus Palm, 1940
  Anthrenus senegalensis
  Anthrenus simonis
  Anthrenus sophonisba Beal, 1998
  Anthrenus tarnawskii
  Anthrenus thoracicus Melsheimer, 1846
  Anthrenus x-signum
   
  
  
   
  Subgenus Florilinus
  Anthrenus castaneae Melsheimer, 1846
  Anthrenus caucasicus
  Anthrenus coreanus
  Anthrenus flavidus
  Anthrenus hartmanni
  Anthrenus mugodsharicus
  Anthrenus museorum (Linnaeus, 1761) – museum beetle
  Anthrenus oberthueri Reitter, 1881
  Anthrenus olgae Kalík, 1946
  Anthrenus pallidus
  Anthrenus solskianus
  Anthrenus sordidulus
  Anthrenus sveci
  Anthrenus tanakai
  Anthrenus zhantievi
   
  Subgenus Helocerus
  Anthrenus fuscus A.G.Olivier, 1789
  Anthrenus minutus Erichson, 1846
  Anthrenus polonicus Mroczkowski, 1951
   
  Subgenus Nathrenus
  
  
   
  Anthrenus albomaculatus
  Anthrenus albostictus
  Anthrenus basilewskyi
  Anthrenus biskrensis Reitter, 1887
  Anthrenus boyesi
  Anthrenus bulirschi
  Anthrenus constantini
  Anthrenus cordis
  Anthrenus exilis
  Anthrenus havai
  Anthrenus kucerai
  Anthrenus margarethae
  Anthrenus mindanaoensis
  Anthrenus nadeini
   
  Anthrenus natalensis
  Anthrenus obscurus
  Anthrenus preissi
  Anthrenus pubifer
  Anthrenus schawalleri
  Anthrenus signatus Erichson, 1846
  Anthrenus signatus var. incanus
  Anthrenus snizeki
  Anthrenus stelma
  Anthrenus transcaspicus
  Anthrenus tryznai
  Anthrenus undatus
  Anthrenus zahradniki
   
  
  
   
  Subgenus Ranthenus
  Anthrenus alatauensis
  Anthrenus kryzhanovskii
  Anthrenus zeravshanicus
   
  Subgenus Solskinus
  Anthrenus assimilis
  Anthrenus bucharicus
  Anthrenus dsungaricus
  Anthrenus jacobsoni
  Anthrenus tadzhicus
  Anthrenus talassicus
   
  Subgenus undetermined
  Anthrenus amoenulus - Anthrenodes or Florilinus?
  Anthrenus biscrensis - Florilinus?
  Anthrenus blanci Beal, 1998
  Anthrenus coloratus Reitter, 1881 - Anthrenops or Florilinus?
  Anthrenus fucosus Beal, 1998
  Anthrenus funebris - Florilinus?
  Anthrenus minor - Anthrenodes or Florilinus?
  Anthrenus minor ab. unicolor
  Anthrenus molitor Aubé, 1850 - Florilinus or Nathrenus?
  Anthrenus occidens Casey, 1900
  Anthrenus omoi Beal, 1998
  Anthrenus sarnicus – Guernsey carpet beetle - Anthrenodes or Florilinus?
  Anthrenus signatus - Florilinus or Nathrenus?
  Anthrenus tuvensis - Florilinus?
  Anthrenus umbra Beal, 1998
  Anthrenus ussuricus - Florilinus?
  Anthrenus verbasci – varied carpet beetle - Florilinus or Nathrenus?
  Anthrenus verbasci var. nebulosus
  Anthrenus versicolor Reitter, 1887 - Florilinus or Nathrenus?
caption: common carpet beetle (A. scrophulariae), probably male
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