Journal of Entomological Research
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  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 42
  • Issue: 2

Survey of museum beetle (Dermestes sp.) damage to the scorpion collection in the Health Faculty of Kashan University of Medical Sciences

  • Author:
  • Rouhullah Dehghani, Hamid Reza Saberi, Mohammad Sabahi Bidgoli, Esmail Charkhloo, Elahe Chimehi, Narges Mohammadzadeh1
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 295 to 300

1 Faculty of Geographical Sciences and Planning, Health Center University of Isfahan Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran

Department of Environment Health, Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran

*Corresponding author's present address: Department of Environment Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran, E-mail: echarkhloo@yahoo.com

Online published on 16 July, 2018.

Abstract

The result showed that all the drawers containing the scorpion preservation boxes were found damaged by Dermestes sp. Totally, 210 Dermestes larvae were collected. On a average 15 larvae were collected from each drawer. The length of the mature larva was 10–12 mm. The larvae were oval shaped with bodies covered hearly by strands of hair. The incurred damages to the collections were huge because of lack of supervision.

Keywords

Collection, Dermestes, museum beetle, pest, scorpion