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Carpet Beetle

Anthrenus scrophulariae (Linnaeus 1758)

Biological Museum, Lund University: Entomology   cc-by-nc-2.0

Anthrenus scrophulariae (Carpet Beetle) is a species of beetles in the family skin beetles. They visit flowers of Cow Parsley, bishop's goutweed, spurge, and woman's tobacco. Individuals can grow to 2.9 mm.

EOL has data for 11 attributes, including:

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of carpet beetle. View this species on GBIF