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Mesocoelopodinae
Mesocoelopodinae is a subfamily of death-watch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are at least 4 genera and 100 described species in Mesocoelopodinae. The subfamily Mesocoelopodinae, along with Anobiinae and several others, were formerly considered members of the family Anobiidae, but the family name has since been changed to Ptinidae. Genera These four genera belong to the subfamily Mesocoelopodinae: * '' Cryptorama'' * '' Mesocoelopus'' * '' Neosothes'' * '' Tricorynus'' i c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References Further reading * * * * * * External links * Ptinidae {{bostrichoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ptinidae
Ptinidae is a family of beetles in the superfamily Bostrichoidea. There are at least 220 genera and 2,200 described species in Ptinidae worldwide. The family includes spider beetles and deathwatch beetle, as well as the Cigarette beetle, cigarette, Drugstore beetle, drugstore and Common furniture beetle, furniture beetles. The Ptinidae family species are hard to identify because they are so small, and they have a compact body structure. They also have similar morphologies within the genera and species of the family. There are three main groups in the superfamily Bostrichoidea: Bostrichidae, Anobiidae, and Ptinidae. These have undergone frequent changes in hierarchical classification since their inception. They have been treated as a single family, three independent families, the two families Bostrichidae and Anobiidae, or the two families Bostrichidae and Ptinidae. More recent literature treats these as the two families Bostrichidae and Ptinidae, with Anobiidae a subfamily of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaston Portevin
Gaston Portevin (1869–1946) was a French naturalist and entomologist. He specialized in beetles and wrote several books including a monograph of the Silphidae, which he called "necrophages". Early life Portevin was born in Évreux. His brother Henri Portevin (1874–1945) was also a naturalist and entomologist. He worked as a bank manager in Marne (department), Marne. Entomology He was introduced into entomology by Maurice Auguste Régimbart. He collected beetles extensively, became a part of the Paris beetle-collecting circle and became a subscriber of the ''Miscellanea Entomologica''. He was a friend of publisher Paul Lechevalier through whom he produced several books on beetles. Portevin produced a key to the French Longhorn beetle, Cerambycidae in 1927. Another major work was ''Histoire naturelle des coléoptères de France'' which he wrote from 1929 to 1935 which sought to be an exhaustive catalogue of all the beetles of France. He also collected diptera and wrote o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
