Family PTINIDAE

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Introduction

The common names for beetles of this family are indicative of their habits: furniture beetle — they bore into and damage furniture and timber; drugstore and tobacco beetles — they feed on and damage stored products; and spider beetles — one lives on remains of arthropds in spider nests. Other species live as inquilines in ants nests. One hundred and ninety-five species in 38 genera are recorded here for Australia; Lawrence & Britton (1991: 564) gave an estimate of 225 species for Australia.

Following Lawrence and Britton (1991), AFD previousely used the name Anobiidae for this family. However, more recent authors have used the senior name Ptinidae which is now used here following Bouchard et al. (2011) and Zahradník and Háva (2014) .

General References

Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-Group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88(Special issue): 1–972

Lawrence, J.F. & Britton, E.B. 1991. Chapter 35. Coleoptera (Beetles). pp. 543-683 in Division of Entomology, CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press Vol. 2. (564)

Zahradník, P. & Háva, J. 2014. Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia). Zootaxa 3754(4): 301–352

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