Global InformationAttagenus smirnovi information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dermestidae |
| Genus: | Attagenus |
| Species: | A. smirnovi
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| Attagenus smirnovi Zhantiev, 1973
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Attagenus smirnovi, the brown carpet beetle, is a species of beetle from the family Dermestidae. It is a synanthropic pest which lives in human buildings, homes and museums and eats wool-textiles, carpets, skin and fur.[1] Due to its specific epithet smirnovi, the beetle is also known in the United Kingdom as the 'Vodka beetle', after the Smirnoff brand of vodka.[2]
- ^ Lynda Hillyer & Valerie Blyth (1994). "Carpet beetle: a pilot study in detection and control". In Simon Knell (ed.). Care of Collections. Volume 5 of Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. Routledge. pp. 240–258. ISBN 0-415-11285-0.
- ^ Attagenus smirnovi Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Article, Danish National Museum