Anthrenus museorum
(Linnaeus, 1761) · speciesAt a glance
Sources7 archives
Databases and archives Anthrenus museorum's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation11 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility6 770 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI76 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics32 specimens↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Anthrenus museorum, commonly known as the museum beetle, is a species of beetle found in the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East and the Nearctic. In its larval form it damages all forms of dry skin and hair. The larva will also eat dry cheese, flour or cocoa occasionally. It is considered a pest, as it damages, among others, the skin of taxidermied animals, such as polar bears and big cats in museums.Strang, T. J. K. "Session 7: Museum Pests." Available from: [1] Larva The larva is yellowish, hairy, and measures 4.5 mm. The dorsal surface of the prothorax is brownish. At its rear end, it has three pairs of long antenna. The adult measures 2 to 4 mm. It has a round shape and its dark elytra are spotted with bright colors. It lives for one or two weeks, outdoors, on plants. It prefers the flowers of Asteraceae, Apiaceae and Scrophulariaceae. To lay eggs, the female seeks nooks, carpets, flooring or wool to hide and to assure a food supply for the larvae. She lays forty eggs at a time once a year.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Anthrenus museorum has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
Record type6 770 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions29 of 71 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 242 |
| Geneva, CH | 128 |
| Trondheim, NO | 98 |
| Tartu, EE | 80 |
| Helsinki, FI | 76 |
| Bern, CH | 73 |
| Olocation not on record | 72 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 54 |
| Dhaka, BD | 51 |
| Zürich, CH | 50 |
| Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record | 31 |
| Philadelphia, US | 30 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 29 |
| Metsähallituslocation not on record | 28 |
| Chicago, US | 28 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 22 |
| BioFokuslocation not on record | 22 |
| Tilburg, NL | 21 |
| Paro, BT | 21 |
| Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record | 19 |
| Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausenlocation not on record | 19 |
| Jyväskylä, FI | 19 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 16 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 16 |
| Frauenfeld, CH | 16 |
| Kuopio, FI | 16 |
| neflocation not on record | 14 |
| NMBU:MINAlocation not on record | 12 |
| Uniwersytet Łódzkilocation not on record | 12 |
| Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record | 12 |
| Oulu, FI | 11 |
| Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record | 11 |
| TMPMlocation not on record | 10 |
| NMOKlocation not on record | 10 |
| Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record | 10 |
| East Lansing, US | 9 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 9 |
| IFR-DNFlocation not on record | 9 |
| ZMAAlocation not on record | 8 |
| LSMlocation not on record | 8 |
| University of Tokyo, Department of Zoologylocation not on record | 7 |
| Fribourg, CH | 6 |
| Winterthur, CH | 6 |
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| ZSMlocation not on record | 6 |
| Tallinn, EE | 5 |
| IMEDEAlocation not on record | 5 |
| CBDClocation not on record | 5 |
| Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record | 4 |
| SFRAlocation not on record | 4 |
| Salzburg, AT | 4 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 3 |
| Tromsø, NO | 3 |
| New Haven, US | 3 |
| Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record | 2 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 2 |
| Sion, CH | 2 |
| University of Sydney, Macleay Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chicago, US | 2 |
| Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 2 |
| University of Guelph, Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 2 |
| Sydney, AU | 2 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 2 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Guelphlocation not on record | 1 |
| University of Oulu, Zoological Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record | 1 |
| DPIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Paris, FR | 1 |
Where the DNA of Anthrenus museorum was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.