Ptinidae

The status, affinity, scope or nomenclature of this taxon is disputed.

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Bostrichiformia
Superfamilia: Bostrichoidea
Familia: Ptinidae
Subfamiliae: Gibbiinae - Ptininae

Akotsen-Mensah, C.; Philips, T.K. 2009: Description of a new genus of spider beetle (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa, 2160: 51-67. Abstract & excerpt
Bellés, X. 2009: Spider beetles (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) from the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Arabia, 24: 145-154.
Bellés, X.; Vitali, F. 2007: New fossil spider beetles from Baltic amber (Coleoptera Ptinidae). Entomapeiron paleoentomology, 2(2): 17-28.
Irish, J. 1999: First records of pest species of Ptinidae (Coleoptera) from southern Africa. African entomology, 7(1): 149-150. PDF
Philips, T.K. 2000: Phylogenetic analysis of the New World Ptininae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea). Systematic entomology, 25: 235-262.

English: spider beetles