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Definition of Dermestidae
1. Noun. Carpet beetles.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Carpet Beetle, Carpet Bug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dermestidae
Literary usage of Dermestidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"Dermestidae.—Tarsi fi re-jointed; antennae usually short, •with the clnb ...
Dermestidae in the larval state nearly all live on dried animal matter, ..."
2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1900)
"is evidently allied to the Dermestidae, but differs in so many radical characters,
... As thus restricted, the American Dermestidae may be assigned to five ..."
3. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"2, a) only because thev furnish a good example of what Fischer termed fibrous
scales (Faser- schuppen). Of other species of dermestidae I only examined ..."
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