Family Ptinidae Latreille 1802 (spider beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Invalid subtaxa: Anobiidae Fleming 1821, Anobiumedae Fleming 1821, Gnostidae [replaced name]
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Bostrichoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Zahradník and Háva 2014
Sister taxa: Bostrichidae, Dermestidae, Endecatomidae
Subtaxa: Alvarenganiellinae Anobiinae Dorcatominae Dryophilinae Ernobiinae Eucnemis antiquatus Eucradinae Mesocoelopodinae Ptilininae Ptininae Xyletininae Xyletinites
Type: Ptinus
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