Dermestes erichsoni Ganglbauer, 1904

Khachikov, E. A., Háva, J. & Poushkova, S. V., 2022, New records of the skin beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from Russia, Central Asia and Caucasus, with description of a new species from Kazakhstan, Far Eastern Entomologist 448, pp. 1-10 : 9

Dermestes erichsoni Ganglbauer, 1904

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Russia: Rostov region: Mankovo-Beresovka vill .,

ravine forest, plant litter, 10.X 1979, 1♂, leg. E. Khachikov ( CZ); Georgia: South

Ossetia: Tskhinvali env., 13.VII 2013, 1♂, 2♀, leg. Yu. Komarov ( CZ) .

DISTRIBUTION. Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Europe, Ukraine, Russia (Caucasus), Syria, Turkey, Georgia (Zhantiev, 1976; Pushkin, 2002; Háva, 2015). New record for Rostov region.

REMARKS. Dermestes erichsoni was collected by us in a litter of a ravine oak forest. According to Zhantiev (1976), the larvae of this species feed on the clutches of the gypsy moth Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758) .