Ptilium nigrovittis LeConte, 1863

Ptilium nigrovittis LeConte, 1863: 63 . Type locality: New Orleans [USA].

The LeConte collection (MCZ) holds a single specimen, labelled as follows: "La. [?= Louisiana]", " Type / 6627", " Ptinella / nigrovittis / Motsch[ulsky] / New Orleans", " Aug.-Dec. 2004 / MCZ Image / Database". The specimen representing a male of the forma alata is mounted on a mica slide and is in rather poor condition, lacking most appendages. It was dissected and the aedeagus mounted in PVP (Lompe 1989) on a glass slide attached to the same pin. The aedeagus is of the simple curved tubular type, similar to that of Ptinella aptera (Guérin-Méneville) . It is considered a synonym of Ptinella quercus (LeConte) (Matthews 1872) .