Ptinella

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Ptiliidae
Subfamilia: Ptiliinae
Tribus: Ptinellini
Genus: Ptinella
Species (42 + 2†): P. acaciae – P. aptera – P. atrata – P. bitumida – P. britannica – P. brunnescens – P. cavelli – P. chathamensis – P. concinna – P. confusa – P. dentata – P. denticollis – P. errabunda – P. fallax – P. ferruginea – P. galapagana – P. gomyi – P. impressicollis – P. johnsoni – P. kermadecensis – P. limbata – P. lucida – P. matthewsiana – P. mekula – P. microscopica – P. mystica – P. natvigi – P. octopunctata – P. okei – P. pacifica – P. parva – P. pini – P. populicola – P. propria – P. pustulata – P. quercus – P. similata – P. simsoni – P. snarensis – P. taylorae – P. tenella – P. watti – P. yapensis – †P. oligocoenica – †P. rovnoensis
... In synonymy (17): P. angustula – P. arcuticollis – P. biimpressa – P. elata – P. gracilis – P. maria – P. nigrovittis – P. pallida – P. pallidula – P. perrini – P. proteus – P. ratisbonesis – P. rotundicollis – P. subvariolosa – P. tenuis – P. testacea – P. yosiii
Name

Ptinella Motschulsky, 1844
Authority for placement: objective (type genus)

Synonyms

Achosia Deane, 1930
Cnemadoxia Deane, 1930
Gender: [feminine]
Original status: valid genus
Type species: Cnemadoxia okei Deane, 1930
Fixation: original designation [and monotypy]
Leaptiliodes Deane, 1932
Authority for placement: Johnson, 1982: 360 ('New synonymy')
Neuglenes Thomson, 1859: Skand. Coleopt., 1, 63; 1862, 4, 103.
Plitium Besuchet in Besuchet & Sundt, 1971
Authority for placement: Johnson, 1982: 360 ('New synonymy')

References

Besuchet, C.; Sundt, E. 1971: 21. Familie: Ptiliidae. Pp. 311-342 in Freude, H.; Harde, K.W.; Lohse, G.A. (eds) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Vol. 3, Adephaga 2, Palpicornia, Histeroidea, Staphylinoidea 1. Goecke & Evers, Krefeld. [not seen] Reference page.
Britten, H. 1926: Coleoptera, Ptiliidae (Trichopterygidae). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (2) (zoology), 19 (1): 87–92. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1926.tb00542.x
Deane, C. 1930: Trichopterygidae of Australia and Tasmania. Descriptions of six new genera and eleven new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 55(4): 477–487. BHL Reference page.
Deane, C. 1932: Trichopterygidae of Australia and adjacent islands. Descriptions of two new genera and eighteen new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57(3-4): 181–196. BHL Reference page.
Emberson, R.M. 2002: The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Chatham Islands: additions and corrections. New Zealand entomologist, 25: 69–77.
Johnson, C. 1975: Five species of Ptiliidae (Col.) new to Britain, and corrections to the British list of the family. Entomologist's gazette, 26: 211–223.
Johnson, C. 1982: Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Brenesia, 19-20: 189–199. [not seen]
Johnson, C. 1982. An introduction to the Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology 9(3): 333–376. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1982.10423865 Google books. Reference page.
Johnson, C. 1985: Revision of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) occurring in the Mascarenes, Seychelles and neighbouring islands. Entomologica basiliensia, 10: 159–237.
Johnson, C. 1993: Ptiliidae (Col.) from the Yap Islands. Entomologist's record and journal of variation, 105: 79–83. Internet Archive BHL
Motschulsky, V. von 1845. Über die Ptilien Russland’s. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou 18(4): 504–539, plates IX-X. BHL Reference page.
Polilov, A.A.; Perkovsky, E.E. 2004: [New species of Late Eocene feather-winged beetles (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae) from the Rovno and Baltic amber.] Paleontologicheskii zhurnal, 2004 (6): 73–77. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological journal, 38 (6): 664–668. PDF]
Rutanen, I. 1985: A new species of Ptinella Motschulsky from Fennoscandia (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Entomologica scandinavica, 16: 135–136. DOI: 10.1163/187631285X00225
Taylor, V.A. 1981: The adaptive and evolutionary significance of wing polymorphism and parthogenesis in Ptinella Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Ecological entomology, 6 (1): 89–98. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1981.tb00975.x BUGZ

Ptinella is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Ptiliidae.[1]

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.[1]

Species:[1]

Ptinella acaciae Johnson, 1982
Ptinella africana Paulian & Delamare-Deboutteville, 1948

References

"Ptinella Motschulsky, 1844". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.