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TRICHODERMATA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 671 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRICHODERMATA .—Several families of rather soft-skinned beetles, such as the Melyridae, Cleridae (fig. 16), Corynetidae, Dermestidae (fig. 17), and Das- cillidae, are included in this tribe. They may be distinguished from the See also:

Malacodermata by the presence of only five or six abdominal sterna, while six malpighian tubes are See also:present in some of the families. The beetles are hairy and their larvae well-armoured and often predaceous. Several See also:species of Dermestidae are commonly found in houses, feeding on cheeses, dried See also:meat, skins and other such substances. The " See also:bacon See also:beetle " (Dermestes lardarius), and its hard hairy larva, are well known. According to See also:Sharp, all Dermestid larvae probably feed on dried See also:animal matters; he mentions one species that can find sufficient See also:food in the horsehair of See also:furniture, and another that eats the dried See also:insect-skins See also:hanging in old cobwebs.

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