hide beetles
trogidae latin

The antenna of hide beetles are usually fairly short and clubbed.

Pyrethrins are labeled for the use against hide beetles.

Trogidae, otherwise known as hide beetles, are found worldwide.

Hide beetles are important in the final stages of decomposition of a carcass.

Hide beetles are the only beetle with the enzymes necessary for breaking down keratin, a protein component of hair.

Hide beetles or leather beetles are also known as the skin beetles.

Dermestes maculatus, hide beetles, also have the potential to offer investigators an estimation of the time since death in homicide or questionable cases.

Modern methods of meat slaughtering, storage, and distribution have reduced potential infestations of hide beetles.

Skin/hide beetles - family Dermestidae.

The (Trogidae) or hide beetles are a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance.

There is little known about the life cycle of the Trogidae specifically.

The Trogidae family is predaceous in addition to being scavengers.

Trogidae's use in forensic entomology is unknown at this time.

The Chinese have been especially interested in the taxonomy of Trogidae.

Trox sabulosus is a beetle of the Trogidae family.

Polynoncus is a genus of beetles of the Family Trogidae.

It is believed that Trogidae hails from Australia.

The family of Trogidae favors dry environments over moist environments and therefore is often found within temperate and plains areas.

Due to these similarities many call the family of Scarabaeidae a 'superfamily' to the family of Trogidae.

Beetles of the Trogidae family have also been found to feed off of carcasses in the wild that have died and are decomposing.

African Trogidae are being studied through the University of Pretoria on the forensic importance of these beetles, as well as other carrion-associated beetles.

The family of Trogidae has approximately three hundred species in three different genera that are worldwide in distribution: Trox, Omorgus, and Polynoncus.

Various species of Trogidae have been used by museums to clean up skeletons by eating any remaining dried material left on the skeletons leaving them clean for display.

Omorgus costatus is a species of beetle of the Family Trogidae that occurs in Australia, Tasmania, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Vietnam, Java, India and China.

The origins and classifications for the family of Trogidae are very controversial but recent NA literature depicts Trogidae as its own family rather than a subfamily of Scarabaeidae.

Predators are rare due to Trogidae's habit of being covered with dirt and debris, and that when they are disturbed they have a habit of being motionless or faking death to avoid detection or being eaten.

Trogidae Omorgus candidus or any beetle in the family Trogidae is a scavenger type beetle that all have the same diet and predators for all in this family are the same.

Glaresis was originally classified with Trogidae (originally a subfamily within Scarabaeidae), and has many characteristics of "primitive" scarabaeoids, but no affinities to any of the other primitive groups; recent work suggests that they may in fact belong in Trogidae.