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Genus Ptinus - Spider Beetle

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Class Insecta - Insects
Order Coleoptera - Beetles
Suborder Polyphaga - Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles
Superfamily Bostrichoidea - Carpet, Powder-post and Death-watch Beetles
Family Anobiidae - Death-watch and Spider Beetles
Subfamily Ptininae - Spider Beetles
Genus Ptinus - Spider Beetle

Species bimaculatus - Ptinus bimaculatus
Species fallax - Ptinus fallax
Species falli - Ptinus falli
Species fur - Whitemarked Spider Beetle
Species hystrix - Ptinus hystrix
Species ocellus - Australian spider beetle
Species quadrimaculatus - Ptinus quadrimaculatus
Species sexpunctatus - Ptinus sexpunctatus
Species tumidus - Ptinus tumidus


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