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Ptininae  Latreille, 1802
Taxonomic Serial No.: 678611

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderBostrichiformia Forbes, 1926  
                                        SuperfamilyBostrichoidea Latreille, 1802  
                                           FamilyPtinidae Latreille, 1802 – spider beetles  
                                              SubfamilyPtininae Latreille, 1802  
    Direct Children:  
                                                 GenusGibbium Scopoli, 1777  
                                                 GenusGnostus Westwood, 1855  
                                                 GenusMezium Curtis, 1828  
                                                 GenusNiptinus Fall, 1905  
                                                 GenusNiptus Boieldieu, 1856  
                                                 GenusPitnus Gorham, 1883  
                                                 GenusPseudeurostus Heyden, 1906  
                                                 GenusPtinus Linnaeus, 1766  
                                                 GenusSphaericus Wollaston, 1854  
                                                 GenusTipnus Thomson, 1863  
                                                 GenusTrigonogenius Solier, 1849  
       

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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, version 2.2, database (version 2.2)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2025). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, v2.2 (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Ptininae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
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  Reference for: Ptininae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Philips, T. Keith   
  Publication Date: 2000   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogenetic analysis of the New World Ptininae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematic Entomology, vol. 25, issue 2   
  Page(s): 235-262   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0307-6970   
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  Reference for: Ptininae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Philips, T. Keith, and Douglas E. Foster   
  Publication Date: 2004   
  Article/Chapter Title: Cryptopeniculus nigrosetus n.g., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from the Namaqualand region of South Africa   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, no. 577   
  Page(s): 1-11   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: Online edition ISSN is 1175-5334: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/   
  Reference for: Ptininae   
       

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