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Tribe Ptiliini

Tiny bristle-antennaed beetle - Ptenidium Featherwinged Beetle - Ptenidium Underbark featherwing - Ptenidium Ptiliidae (Featherwing Beetles)? - Micridium Ptiliolum sp. - Ptiliolum - male Ptiliolum sp. - Ptiliolum - male Ptiliolum sp. - Ptiliolum - male Ptiliolum?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Ptiliidae (Featherwing[ed] Beetles)
Subfamily Ptiliinae
Tribe Ptiliini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ptenidiini Flach 1889 listed as a separate tribe in(1)
Explanation of Names
Ptiliini Erichson 1845
Numbers
the largest & most diverse group within the family, with >60 described (and great many undescribed) spp. in 15 genera in our area; ~40 genera worldwide(2)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(2)
Works Cited
1.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
2.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by v belov on 4 December, 2010 - 10:43pm
Last updated 16 February, 2015 - 12:11pm

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