Dermestes (Dermestes) peruvianus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

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Dermestes (Dermestes) peruvianus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

Dermestes peruvianus Laport.: Bertolini 1904: 58.

Dermestes peruvianus Casteln.: Luigioni 1929: 1024; Porta 1929: 301.

Dermestes (Dermestes) peruvianus Castelnau, 1840: Plata-Negrache 1972: 150; Zhantiev 2011a.

Dermestes (Dermestes) peruvianus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: Audisio et al. 1995: 12, 16; Háva 2007: 300.

Dermestes peruvianus Laporte de Castelnau: Pollini 1998: 909.

Material examined.

[Latium: Roma province,] Roma env., [no other data,] 1 ex (JHAC).

Chorotype.

Subcosmopolitan ( Háva 2007). This species is also recorded from Portugal ( Grosso-Silva and Serrano 2000) and Switzerland ( Kenis 2005, Zhantiev 2011a). Both countries must be added to the European distribution summarized by Háva (2007), while the former country must also be added to those provided by Zhantiev (2011a).

Italian distribution.

Italy? ( Bertolini 1904, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1929). Italian mainland? ( Audisio et al. 1995). Italy (without further details) ( Plata-Negrache 1972, Háva 2007). Italian mainland ( Zhantiev 2011a).

Remarks.

Species described from Peru (cf. Háva and Kalík 2005); the first precise record from Italy is shown above.

Domenichini et al. (1993: 272) wrote that this species is common in food factories and was reared experimentally in an insectarium in Piacenza University (northern Italy), but the place of origin of this captive population is not mentioned. This species, and Dermestes (Dermestinus) carnivorus Fabricius, 1775 (see below), are also considered in an Italian manual of applied entomology ( Pollini 1998), but no records from Italy are listed therein.