Ptinus (Ptinus) latro (Fabricius, 1775), 1867

Zahradník, Petr & Demetriou, Jakovos, 2023, A review of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Cyprus, including new faunistic records and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5306 (2), pp. 243-265 : 257

Ptinus (Ptinus) latro (Fabricius, 1775)

= brunneus Duftschmid, 1825

= lucasii Boieldieu, 1856

= obsoletus Baudi di Selve, 1874

= testaceum Olivier, 1790

Baudi di Selve 1873: 258; Baudi di Selve 1874: 326; Pic 1912a: 36; Winkler 1927: 518; Borowski 2007: 336; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009: 154; Denux & Zagatti 2010: 345; Zahradník 2016b: 116.

Distribution. P: AB AF AG AL AR AU AZ BE BH BU BT BY CH CI CR CY i CZ DE EG EN FI FR GB GE GG GR HU ID IN IQ IR IS IT JA i JO KI KZ LA LB LE LS LT LU MA MC MD ME MG MO MR NC NL NP NR PA PL PO RO RU SC SK SL SP SV SY SZ TD TM TR TU UK UZ YU A i: HI NA NZ I: ID E i: MB NX SF SU N i: CN US Nt i: GT. Cosmopolitan (Borowski 2007; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009; Zahradník 2016b). Originally a Palearctic species.

Alien status. Considered “cryptogenic” (i.e., of unknown origin), possibly introduced to Cyprus (Denux & Zagatti 2010).