Sphaeridium scarabaeoides Linnaeus 1758 (water scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae

Alternative combinations: Dermestes scarabaeoides, Dermestes scaraboides

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Sphaeridium according to C. P. Green et al. 2006

See also Fabricius 1775, Goeze 1777, Linnaeus 1758, Linnaeus 1761, Linnaeus 1767, Lomnicki 1894 and Scopoli 1763

Sister taxa: none

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ukraine (1 collection), the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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