Attagenini Explained

Attagenini is a tribe of carpet beetles in the family Dermestidae. There are at least 4 genera and 20 described species in Attagenini. Attagenini was previously considered a subfamily of Dermestidae called Attageninae, but was reduced in rank to tribe in 2003.

Genera

These four genera belong to the tribe Attagenini:

• Attagenus Latreille, 1802

^{i c g b} (black carpet beetles)

• Egidyella Reitter, 1899

^{i c g}

• Novelsis Casey, 1900

^{i c g b}

• Lanorus

^bData sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Further reading

• World catalogue of the Dermestidae. 2003. Háva . Jirí. Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East Supplement. 1. 1–196.
• Annotated Checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae with Revised Key to the Genera. 2003. Beal . R. S. Jr.. The Coleopterists Bulletin. 57. 4. 391–404. 10.1649/573. 4009680.
• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. 2007. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-8788757675.
• Book: Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae). 2012. Arango. Rachel A.. Young. Daniel K.. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. General Technical Report. FPL–GTR–209. 2019-09-23. 2018-07-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20180720212459/https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr209.pdf. dead.
• Book: Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 1861. LeConte. J. L.. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. 136. 978-0665100550. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459.