Ptinidae Latreille, 1802
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Family Ptinidae Latreille, 1802 View in CoL View at ENA
Ptiniores Latreille, 1802: 112 [stem: Ptin-]. Type genus: Ptinus Linnaeus, 1767 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1995a)]. Comment: Ptinidae Latreille, 1802 placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology (ICZN 1995a); several subfamilies in Ptinidae contain tribes introduced in the literature by R. E. White (1982), those tribal names were not described originally and have not been made available subsequently; although some of White’s tribes have been used as available and valid names recently, e.g., Zahradník (2007), they are not available; in subfamilies containing tribes first proposed by R. E. White (1982), we have decided not to use tribal names at all in order to avoid adding to the confusion, the necessary phylogenetic work needed to establish a meaningful tribal classification in those subfamilies is currently under way (K. Philips pers. comm. 2009).
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