{{short description|Subgenus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Ranthenus | authority = Mroczkowski, 1962<ref name="Mroczkowski 1962a"/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. }} '''''Ranthenus''''' is a subgenus of the genus ''Anthrenus'' of the subfamily Megatominae within the family of skin beetles.<ref name=wd-genera/> Species of subgenus are present only in Asia and Turkey. Subgenus is distinguished by antennae with 4 segments.<ref name=coleonet-anthrenus/>
== Species == According to World Dermestidae catalogue, these species currently belong to subgenus ''Ranthenus'':<ref name=wd-species/><ref name=dermestidae-herrmann/> *''Anthrenus alatauensis'' <small>(Mroczkowski, 1962)</small> – Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan *''Anthrenus kryzhanovskii'' <small>(Sokolov, 1979)</small> – Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan *''Anthrenus prudeki'' <small>(Háva, 2002)</small> – Turkey; Iran; Syria *''Anthrenus zeravshanicus'' <small>(Sokolov, 1979)</small> – Tajikistan
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Mroczkowski 1962a">{{cite journal |last=Mroczkowski |first=Maciej |title=Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from the Kazakh SSR = Dermestidae (Coleoptera) Kazachskiej SRR |journal=Annales Zoologici |volume=20 |pages=254-255 |year=1962 |url=https://archive.org/details/annales-zoologici-20-229-259/page/254}}</ref> <ref name=wd-genera>{{Cite web |last=Háva |first=Jiří |date=2023 |title=World Dermestidae. Genera and subgenera division of Dermestidae |url=http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Genera-and-subgenera-division-of-Dermestidae.pdf |access-date=2 June 2024 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240519054836/http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Genera-and-subgenera-division-of-Dermestidae.pdf | archivedate= 19 May 2024}}</ref> <ref name=wd-species>{{Cite web |last=Háva |first=Jiří |date=2023 |title=World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae |url=http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Subfamily-Megatominae.pdf#page=6 |access-date=2 June 2024 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240602070250/http://dermestidae.wz.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Subfamily-Megatominae.pdf#page=6| archivedate= 2 June 2024}}</ref> <ref name=dermestidae-herrmann>{{Cite web |last=Herrmann |first=Andreas |date=2024 |title=Dermestidae (Abbildungen) |url=http://www.dermestidae.com/Abbildungen.html |access-date=2 June 2024 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240602070649/http://www.dermestidae.com/Abbildungen.html| archivedate= 2 June 2024}}</ref> <ref name=coleonet-anthrenus>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=Anthrenus Bestimmungstabelle (Anthrenus identification table) |url=https://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/anthrenus.htm |access-date=12 June 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240521045158/https://coleonet.de/coleo/texte/anthrenus.htm |archivedate= 21 May 2024 }}</ref> }}
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