Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptiliidae
Alternative spelling: Ptilina
Full reference: W. F. Erichson. 1845. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Erste Abtheilung. Coleoptera. Dritter Band 1-320
Parent taxon: Staphylinoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Carpenter 1992, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Polilov et al. 2019 and Yamamoto et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Agyrtidae, Colonidae, Dasyceridae, Empelidae, Hydraenidae, Jacobsoniidae, Leiodidae, Staphylinidae
Subtaxa: Microptilium Nossidiinae Ptiliinae
Type: Ptilium
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (4 collections), United States (10: Washington)
• Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Montana)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2)
Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences