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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Spider Beetles (Ptininae) » Ptinini » Ptinus » subgenus Gynopterus (Ptinus subgenus Gynopterus) » interruptus group (Ptinus interruptus group)
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Ptinus
Copyright © 2008 John R. Maxwell

Ptinus
Marlton, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA
June 2, 2008
Size: Maybe around 3 mm?
If Ptinus hystrix is known only from TX (http://bugguide.net/node/view/172742), then perhaps this is Ptinus concurrens http://mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz/FMPro?-DB=Image.fm&-Lay=web&-Format=images.htm&Species_ID=24620&-Find or Ptinus fur http://www.showmebeetles.com/showSpecies.htm?speciesId=23562 - which looks totally different than our P. fur http://bugguide.net/node/view/88327?

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Contributed by John R. Maxwell on 28 June, 2008 - 12:47pm
Last updated 28 August, 2021 - 3:06am

Moved
Moved from subgenus Gynopterus.
… v belov, 28 August, 2021 - 3:06am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spider Beetles.
… v belov, 1 April, 2013 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ptinus hystrix.
… John R. Maxwell, 19 October, 2009 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spider Beetle.
… John R. Maxwell, 25 March, 2009 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

Ptinus hystrix, i suppose
based on Boris's ID in the guide
… v belov, 12 March, 2009 - 6:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
I'll leave here unless someone requests otherwise
… John R. Maxwell, 25 March, 2009 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

Only Texas?
Has this been said/written by some authority? You can't go by range data in bugguide as we are really just getting started logging location data. See also http://bugguide.net/node/view/86430/bgimage, http://bugguide.net/node/view/140112/bgimage.
… Jim McClarin, 28 June, 2008 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Distribution
I was just basing it on Boris' comment on the image I quoted...
"P.hystrix probably also is out of range (seems to be known from TX only)."
http://bugguide.net/node/view/172742
… John R. Maxwell, 28 June, 2008 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
:-]
posted comments the very same minute; yours is way more informative
… v belov, 28 June, 2008 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

lovely
these guys are known to spread with all sorts of debris and goods. it's one of these group where you really shouldn't care too much about the recorded range
… v belov, 28 June, 2008 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

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