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Recent research has shown that Anthrenus pimpinellae (Fabricius, 1775) is a complex of species numbering at least 21 in
the Palearctic region. No work has been published illustrating what A. pimpinellae pimpinellae looks like relative to any
other species in the complex, which interferes with accurate recording. Two species are considered here: A....
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... examples of male and female dorsal habitus types are shown in Fig. 2A. For neither A. pimpinellae nor A. amandae was there evidence of sexual dimorphism in color pattern. The elytra of both species carried a mixture of white or cream, orange to brown, and black scales. Anthrenus pimpinellae had denser regions of orange scales spread around the apex of the elytra, from the apex along the elytral suture, ...
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... male and female habitus types are shown in Fig. 2B. The overall impression is of a narrow and very dark species, darker than A. pimpinellae. The orange scales displayed by A. pimpinellae were a dark brown in A. amandae, and it is not immediately obvious that there were any colored scales mixed in with the black. The brown scales on A. amandae showed a similar distribution to the orange ...
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... Some Dermestidae genera show great inter-specific colour pattern variation as illustrated by the images in Herrmann (2023). Some Dermestidae groups are indeed colourful but difficult to differentiate, for example, the Anthrenus pimpinellae complex of species (Kadej et al. 2007;Kadej and Háva 2011;Holloway 2019Holloway , 2020bHolloway , 2021Holloway and Bakaloudis 2020;Holloway et al. 2020aHolloway et al. , b, 2021, but certain other genera contain species that are straightforward to recognize. The Attagenus species of South Africa largely fall into the latter category. ...
The Dermestidae is a relatively poorly studied family of insects but with a high rate of species discovery. The South African region is particularly rich in Attagenus spp. many of which are distinctively patterned. This study provides an updated list of Attagenus spp. in South Africa with a complete literature review and an image-based identification key to the Attagenus species within South Africa. Images of most species are provided. With the rise in significance
of citizen science recording schemes, this study facilitates image-based identification and encourages both entomologists and citizen scientists to further contribute to the understanding of this beautiful Coleopteran family.
... noted by Hoebeke et al. (1985) and which species from the A. pimpinellae complex inhabits the United States now. Holloway and Bakaloudis (2020) carried out a morphological analysis of A. p. pimpinellae. They found, contrary to general agreement, that A. p. pimpinellae does not display conspicuous phenotypic variation. ...
... They found, contrary to general agreement, that A. p. pimpinellae does not display conspicuous phenotypic variation. The data produced by Holloway and Bakaloudis (2020) provide the means to examine images of specimens identified as A. p. pimpinellae from the United States and consider whether they belong to that species. In addition, a small number of 'pimpinellae' individuals were collected from Maryland, United States, providing an opportunity to examine which species exists in the field. ...
... Both proved to be Anthrenus dorsatus Mulsant et Rey 1868. Both specimens (labelled Anthrenus Isabellinus, see Holloway et al., 2020) are deposited in the Montana Entomology Collection, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. (2020) found the BW/BL ratio to be highly conserved in A. p. pimpinellae with a coefficient of variation of just 1.8% making a good character to use to aid with the separation of some species of Anthrenus. The average BW/BL ratio in A. p. pimpinellae is 0.688±0.029, ...
Anthrenus dorsatus Mulsant et Rey 1868 is recorded from the United States for the first time. Species confirmation is achieved through dissection and genitalia examination. Images of A. p. pimpinellae Fabricius 1775 from the United States are examined and compared with confirmed images of A. p. pimpinellae from Europe. It is suggested that specimens from the United States identified as A. p. pimpinellae more likely belong to A. dorsatus. Habitus shapes (body width/body length) of images of United States specimens are too broad for A. p. pimpinellae. In addition, the elytral and ventrite patterns of United States specimens are not consistent with A. p. pimpinellae. To establish which species from the A. pimpinellae complex occur across the United States, dissection and genitalia examination is required
Anecdotal evidence indicates that the holotype of Anthrenus goliath Saulcy in Mulsant & Rey, 1867 was lost along with other holotypes in Mulsant’s collection through neglect and poor storage prior to transfer to Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, in 1944. Here, a (male) neotype for A. goliath is designated. The only feasible confusion species, A. corona Holloway, 2021 is considered to ensure the neotype is definitively A. goliath. Images of habitus, antenna, aedeagus, and sternite IX are illustrated. A female of the species is also shown. The only known location of A. goliath currently known is Egypt.
A new species Anthrenus bakaloudisi sp. nov. is described from Greece. Images of
external and internal features are illustrated. The aedeagus of A. bakaloudisi has slim
parameres so is compared with species that also have slim parameres from middle
and eastern Mediterranean and just into Asia: A. pfefferi, A. delicatus, and
A. warchalowskii. The new species differs internally from A. pfefferi in subtle ways,
but it is easy to distinguish between the species using external colour pattern. Anthrenus delicatus differs from A. bakaloudisi internally and ways of distinguishing between the two species externally are described. Anthrenus warchalowskii is only known from Iran and differs from A. bakaloudisi internally. No information could be found on the likely true range of A. bakaloudisi, so the species is currently only known from Macedonia, Greece in the region of Thessaloniki.
During an examination of Spanish Anthrenus spp. held in Andreas Herrmann's private collection, four specimens of a new species were noted: Anthrenus (Anthrenus) semipallens. Images of habitus features, including antenna, are presented and compared with other Anthrenus species thought to occur in Spain. A. semipallens is small so some comparison species could be eliminated courtesy of size. Although A. semipallens doesn't resemble the colour pattern of any other species, the possibility that A. semipallens is an unknown colour variant of a comparison species was considered. The A. semipallens specimens were dissected and the aedeagus compared with aedeagi from all other possible species. There was no similarity. Anthrenus semipallens is a valid new species.
All examples of Anthrenus (Anthrenus) festivus were borrowed from the Natural History Museum, London for dissection to provide good images of external and internal features. Images of habitus, ventrites and antennae are presented along with aedeagus and sternite IX. The purpose of this was to provide clear information for future comparative taxonomic studies. During the examination of the specimens, a new species was discovered that had been collected in Bombay (Mumbai) in the late 19 th century. Images of external and internal features of the holotype (male) and paratype (female) are provided. The new species is named Anthrenus (Anthrenus) mumbaiensis after the location of collection. Collection data from the study specimens, Andreas Herrmann's private collection, the literature, and verifiable images on iNaturalist were used to generate a distribution map. The map showed that A. festivus is found mainly in coastal regions of the western Mediterranean.
Species that make up the Anthrenus pimpinellae complex are difficult to distinguish: a thorough examination of all the known species is required for progress in their taxonomy. Here a morphometric examination of A. munroi and its male genitalia is carried out to complement similar examinations of other species from the complex. A key is presented to differentiate among Western European species in the A. pimpinellae complex, including A. munroi. The key is aimed at citizen-scientist field images taken for submission to biodiversity websites; it relies entirely on external features that should be distinguishable in clear images.
New records from Andalusia of 28 species of Dermestidae belonging to 10 genera are
given. Anthrenus (Anthrenus) goliath Saulcy in Mulsant & Rey, 1868, Anthrenus (Helocerus) fuscus Olivier, 1789, Anthrenus (Helocerus) minutus Erichson, 1846 and Megatoma (Megatoma) undata (Linnaeus, 1758) are reported for the first time for this autonomous community. First records at provincial level for other species are also given. Information is provided about the worldwide and Iberian distribution of the studied species, and the previous published records from Andalusia are compiled. The taxonomic and chorological composition, as well as the current state of knowledge on the Andalusian Dermestidae diversity, are discussed on the basis of a preliminary checklist.
Key words: Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Andalusia, Iberian Peninsula, faunistics, chorology,
new records.
Abstract. For 160 years, Anthrenus pimpinellae isabellinus Küster, 1848 has been considered a subspecies of A. pimpinellae Fabricius, 1775. However, habitus shape differs between the subspecies with A. p. isabellinus being broader than A. p. pimpinellae
and resembling more closely A. dorsatus Mulsant & Rey, 1868. Here A. p. pimpinellae and A. p. isabellinus, are examined to look
for evidence that they comprise a single taxonomic unit. Habitus and genital structures are considered, and the universal animal
barcode region of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene is sequenced. The results of the morphological, morphometric,
and genetic analyses mirror each other perfectly and suggest that A. p. isabellinus is the same species as A. dorsatus rather than
being a subspecies of A. pimpinellae. The very small intraspecifi c DNA sequence variation supports the view that A. dorsatus
and A. p. isabellinus belong to a single species that diverges considerably from A. p. pimpinellae. Morphology, including genital
structure, is congruent with the genetic data and provides a powerful way of resolving species organisation in these widespread
beetles. In view of these fi ndings, Anthrenus isabellinus Küster, 1848 is restored to full species status and Anthrenus dorsatus
Mulsant & Rey, 1868 becomes its new junior subjective synonym.
