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Family Ptinidae - Death-watch and Spider Beetles

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae)

A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Family: Anobiidae.

By White, R.E.
USDA-ARS, Washington, DC. xi + 59 pp., 1982

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This family consists of about 150 genera and more than 1,600 species in the world.

Included in this catalog are 52 genera and 332 species. However, Ptininae are not treated.

Larvae of most of the species for which the habits are known bore into dead hardwoods and softwoods. Larvae of several species feed in various kinds of fungi. Some species feed in cones of conifers, some in twigs or vines, others in seeds, some in plant stems, a few in bark of various trees, and a very few have been bred from galls.

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 18 September, 2012 - 7:07am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae)

Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin—Coleoptera: Ptinidae

By Arango, R.A. and D.K. Young
General Technical Report FPL-GTR-209. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2012

PDF version http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr209.pdf

Great publication on Anobiidae. Should be very useful for the northeastern fauna.

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 5 August, 2012 - 1:50am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Xyletininae » Lasiodermini » Lasioderma » Lasioderma haemorrhoidale

Lasioderma haemorrhoidale (Ill.) now established in California, with biological data on Lasioderma species (Col.: Anobiidae)

By White R.E.
Col. Bull. 44: 344-348, 1990

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Contributed by v belov on 17 March, 2015 - 1:33pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Mesocoelopodinae » Tricorynini » Tricorynus

A revision of the genus Tricorynus of North America (Coleoptera: Anobiidae)

By White R.E.
Misc. publ. Ent. Soc. Am. 4: 283-368, 1965

i haven't seen the paper; most of the content can be found here but how much the text differs from the published one is anyone's guess

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Contributed by v belov on 3 July, 2017 - 3:53pm

North American Euvrilletta (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) - transferal of taxa from Xyletinus, two new species, and a key

By White R.E.
Col. Bull. 39: 185-193, 1985

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Contributed by v belov on 17 March, 2015 - 11:07am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Spider Beetles (Ptininae) » Ptinini » Niptinus

Revision of the New World genus Niptinus Fall (Coleoptera: Anobiidae: Ptininae)

By Philips T.K.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 71: 137-158, 1999

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Contributed by v belov on 10 March, 2015 - 2:05pm

Revision of the spider beetle genus Niptus in North America, including new cave and pholeophile species (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)

By R. L. Aalbu and F. G. Andrews
The Pan-Pacific entomologist, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 73-96, 1992

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 16 February, 2019 - 12:13pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Bostrichoidea » Death-watch and Spider Beetles (Ptinidae) » Dorcatominae » Dorcatomini » Byrrhodes

A new genus, two new species, and a species key for Byrrhodes

By White R.E.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 75: 48‒54, 1973

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Contributed by v belov on 17 March, 2015 - 6:21pm

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