Dermestes (Dermestes) lardarius Linnaeus, 1758

Hava, Jiri, Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S. & Aldhafer, Hathal M., 2023, The subfamily Dermestinae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1138, pp. 161-173 : 161

Dermestes (Dermestes) lardarius Linnaeus, 1758

Fig. 1E, F

Material examined.

Saudi Arabia • 1 ♀; Makkah Province, Jeddah , "Ras Halibah" [Ras Hatibah]; 7 May. 1982; W. Büttiker leg.; JHAC .

Note.

Dermestes Dermestes lardarius was previously reported from Saudi Arabia without a specific locality ( Hagstrum and Subramanyam 2009). The only known female representing this species in Saudi Arabia was collected from the coastal area in Jeddah (Makkah Province) (Fig. 4D ).

Distribution.

Cosmopolitan ( Háva 2011, 2015, 2022).

Figures

Figure 1. Dorsal habitus and abdominal ventrites (photos by A. Herrmann) of Dermestes species A, B D. ater DeGeer, 1774 C, D D. haemorrhoidalis Kuester, 1852 E, F D. lardarius Linnaeus, 1758.

Figure 4. Distribution map of the Dermestinae species in Saudi Arabia A Dermestes ater, D. haemorrhoidalis, and D. undulatus B D. frischii C D. maculatus D D. lardarius, Mariouta stangei, and Rhopalosilpha wasmanni.