Carpet Beetle sp? Cyprus (1 Viewer)

[Andy Adcock]

Cyprus today.

Anthrenus verbasci is a species I see in the UK, is this the same species?

 

[pdwinter]

With the caveat that I know little about coleoptera I'm sure its an Anthrenus species but I think you will need to get a more detailed image of the antennae to work out which one.
The antenna of verbasci has 11 segments with a club of 3 segments (image attached) while other species have differing numbers of segments and structure e.g. fuscus (which I found on the same flower head as verbasci) has only 5 segments with one as an extremely long club (image also attached) . I found it very difficult to get a good photograph of such small details.
That said the patterning looks like the verbasci I have seen but hopefully there is a beetle expert here.

I found the following list of Cyprus species - I don't know how accurate it is and I've only seen images of flavipes and verbasci

Anthrenus delicatus
Anthrenus festivus
Anthrenus flavipes
Anthrenus molitor
Anthrenus munroi
Anthrenus museorum
Anthrenus sordidulus
Anthrenus verbasci

 

[Tiraya]

It doesn't not look like verbasci, and in my experience verbasci tends to be relatively distinct. I think it's in its own subgenus? Anyway, these can all be ruled out by me except sordidulus which I'm unfamiliar with. A. molitor I don't know but it is apparently a uniform plain species.

A. flavipes is the most similar one globally. But the white scale arrangement doesn't seem to fit well, so verbasci looks nominally likely.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Thanks fellas.

 

[pdwinter]

Just found this website Dermestidae (Coleoptera) - Homepage of Andreas Herrmann

Had another Anthenus verbasci in the study yesterday and today

 

[Andy Adcock]

Just found this website Dermestidae (Coleoptera) - Homepage of Andreas Herrmann

Had another Anthenus verbasci in the study yesterday and today

I've had loads at my place in the UK this year.