Taxonavigation

Familia: Ptiliidae
Genus: Ptiliodes
Species (13): P. amplicollis – P. austerus – P. australis – P. blackburni – P. cavifrons – P. congener – P. curtus – P. insignis – P. naufragus – P. posticalis – P. pruinosus – P. pulchellus – P. purpurascens

Name

• Ptiliodes Matthews, 1882
  • Type species: Ptiliodes blackburni Matthews, 1882

Source(s) for placement

• Johnson, 1988: 258; excluded from Acrotrichinae
• Hall, 2005: 251; placement in Nephanini, but without comment and not accepted here

References

• Johnson, C. 1975: Mission entomologique du Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale aux Monts Uluguru, Tanzanie (L. Berger, N. Leleup et J. Debecker, V–VIII.1971). 5. Coleoptera: Ptiliidae. Revue de zoologie africaine 89(3-4): 719–722. Google books (Snippet view) Reference page.  [See p. 721]

• 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.  [See p. 369; description]

• Johnson, C. 1985: Revision of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) occurring in the Mascarenes, Seychelles and neighbouring islands. Entomologica basiliensia 10: 159–237. Google books (Snippet view) Reference page.  [See p. 208; description]

• Johnson, C. 1988: Revision of Sri Lankan acrotrichines (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae). Revue suisse de zoologie 95(1): 257–275. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 258]

• Matthews, A. 1882: Descriptions of three new species of Trichopterygia, found by the Rev. T. Blackburn in the Sandwich Islands. Cistula entomologica 3(26): 39–42, plate II. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 40; description]

• Matthews, A. 1900: Trichopterygia illustrata et descripta: a monograph of the Trichopterygia. Supplement. London: O.E. Janson. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.9346 Reference page.  [See p. 75; description]

• Michaux, B.; Leschen, R.A.B. 2005: East meets west: biogeology of the Campbell Plateau. Biological journal of the Linnean Society 86(1): 95–115. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00511.x Reference page.  [See p. 101; as Ptilodes; "...nine genera restricted to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands and Fiordland/Southland/Otago (Ptilodes (Ptiliidae), ..." (It is hard to make any sense of this statement since Ptiliodes is widespread throughout N.Z.!)]

External links

• iNaturalist
• ZooBank: 5DF135E9-C63C-4AD7-8BB2-425B14D93FF7

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