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Genus Petalium


A revision of the genus Petalium LeConte in the United States, Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas (Coleoptera: Anobiidae)
By Ford, E.J.
United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 1467, 1973
Digital version at Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=KacoAAAAYAAJ

Keys to neotropical species of Calymmaderus Solier and species of Calytheca White, with taxonomic notes (Coleoptera: Anobiidae)
By White, R.E.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85: 229-250, 1983
Has a key to Calymmaderus that includes at least some of the Nearctic species.

Full text online here.

Key to North American genera of Anobiidae, with phylogenetic and synonymic notes (Coleoptera)
By Richard E. White
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 64, Issue 1, pp. 179–191, 1971

Revision of the Ptinidae of boreal America
By H. C. Fall
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 31, No. 2/3, pp. 97-296 , 1905

Taxonomic notes on North American Anobiidae with a new species (Coleoptera)
By White R.E.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 76: 459-463, 1974

Three new species of Anobiidae from southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico (Coleoptera)
By White R.E.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 83: 472-278, 1981

New genus and four new species of North American Anobiidae with notes
By White R.E.
Col. Bull. 30: 337-354, 1976

Six new Anobiidae from North America with keys (Coleoptera)
By White R.E.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 68: 228-236, 1966