This is a message from the Pest Management Database List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. -----------------------------------------------------------It certainly looks like a dermestid without doubt, but Thylodrias contractus has club-shaped setae along the posterior edge of the abdominal tergites with a group of sharp-pointed setae on the sides and I don't know if I can see these on the examples in the picture. Head also has characteristically shaped setae. All setae in the pictures don't look perfect, but hard to see without the image breaking up while zooming in. At this point in time, can't go along with the Thylodrias ID. Maybe more will be located. Better yet, maybe living larvae or adults!
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