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Please help classify this insect?

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I've found a number of the small bugs. Picture here:

http://bolognini.net/bug/

Could you help classify it?

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  1. It is a Gibbium Psylloides or a "Shiny Spider Beetle".

    The spider beetle larvae will infest all manner of dry animal and vegetable matter including broken grain or grain products, seeds, dried fruits or meats, wool, hair, feathers, rat and mouse droppings, insect and other animal remains, plant and animal museum specimens, books, dried mushrooms, animal feeds and sugar. The larvae bore holes in which to pupate, and in so doing may damage packaging or the commodities themselves. They also contaminate commodities with droppings and silk webbing. Adult beetles will also damage packaging including bags and sacks. Gregarious and nocturnal, they spend the day in cracks and crevices.

    Here are some more photos of them:

    http://www.ento.psu.edu/ImageGallery/Ima...

    http://www.ento.psu.edu/ImageGallery/Ima...

    http://image.historisches-fachwerk.com/u...

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