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

Subfamily Anobiinae - Death-watch Beetles

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Beetle 9 - Hadrobregmus notatus Hoping this one is different but, I think it may be the same one... - Hadrobregmus alternatus Death Watch Beetle - Priobium sericeum What type of beetle? - Trichodesma gibbosa Oligomerus Saratoga beetle 1 - Stegobium paniceum Anobiin 4114 - Trichodesma cristata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Ptinidae (Death-watch and Spider Beetles)
Subfamily Anobiinae (Death-watch Beetles)
Explanation of Names
R.E. White's 1982 names for 6 tribes deemed unavailable(1)
Numbers
7 tribes(1), all represented in NA
Identification
Body elongate cylindrical, pronotum often gibbous, antennae usually with 3 terminal segments elongated, sometimes also enlarged (indistinct in the genus Priobium); head retracted below pronotum in when disturbed, pronotum usually with distinct side border.
Range
world-wide
Food
Wood-borers as larvae
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.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 January, 2005 - 1:20am
Additional contributions by Tom Bentley, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 27 July, 2015 - 12:13pm

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