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Family Dermestidae Latreille, 1807 - carpet beetles: Atlas of extinct groups of beetles Family carpet beetles

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk, August 2009.

 

 

Composition of genera, including fossils:

 

Subfamily Dermestinae Latreille, 1807 (Upper Cretaceous - Recent)

    Dermestes Linnaeus, 1758 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

 

Subfamily Attageninae Laporte, 1840 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Attagenus Latreille, 1802 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

 

Subfamily Megatominae Leach, 1815 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Anthrenus Schaeffer, 1766 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Megatoma Herbst, 1792 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    +Amberoderma Hava et Prokop, 2005 (Lower Miocene)

    Globicornis Latreille, 1829 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

    Cryptorhopalum Guerin-Meneville, 1838 (Oligocene/Miocene - Recent)

    +Miocryptorhopalum Pierce, 1960 (Middle Miocene)

    Orphinus Motschulsky, 1858 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

 

Subfamily Orphilinae Leconte, 1861 (Lower Oligocene - Recent)

    Orphilus Erichson, 1846 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

 

Subfamily Trinodinae Casey, 1900 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

    +Cretonodes Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk et al. 2009 (Lower Cretaceous)

    Trinodes Dejean, 1821 (Upper Eocene - Recent)

 

 

Literature:

 

(Look also at the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Scarabaeina (3 part))

 

Пономаренко А.Г., Жерихин В.В. 1980. Надотряд Scarabaeidea. Жесткокрылообразные. (Труды Палеонтологического института АH СССР. 175) Москва, Наука. 75-84.

 

Crowson R.A. 1975. The evolutionary history of Coleoptera as documented by fossil and comparative evidence. Atti Congr. naz. Ital. Entomol. 10th. Sassari 1974. 47-90.

 

Crowson R.A. 1981. The Biology of the Coleoptera. London-New York-Toronto-Sydney-San Francisco, Academic press. 802 p.

 

Ha'va J. 2003. World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Studie a Spra'vy Oblastnigo Muzea Praha-vy'chod v Brandy'se nad Labem a Stare' Boleslavi, Suppl. 1: 1-196.

 

Ha'va J. & & Prokop J. 2004. New fossil Dermestid-beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Dominican amber of the Greater Antilles, with an appendix listing known fossil of this family. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemiae, 68 (3): 173-182.

 

Ha'va J, Procop J. 2006. Trinodes puetzi sp.nov., a new species described from the Baltic Amber (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 69: 277-279.

 

Ha'va J, Procop J. & Herrmann A. 2006. New fossil dermestid beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Baltic amber. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 69: 281-287.

 

Kirejtshuk A.G., Azar D., Tafforeau P., Boistel R., Fernandez V. 2009. New beetles of Polyphaga (Coleptera, Polyphaga) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Denisia, 26 (zugleich Katalogue der oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Neue Serie, 86): 119-130.

 

Ponomarenko A.G. 2002. 2.2.1.3.2. Superorder Scarabaeidea Laicharting, 1781, Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. History of insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London: 164-180.