Ptenidium Erichson, 1845

Darby, Michael, 2020, Eight new species of Ptenidiini and Discheramocephalini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) from Ecuador, European Journal of Taxonomy 599, pp. 1-19 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.599
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3665025
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scientific name	Ptenidium Erichson, 1845
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Genus Ptenidium Erichson, 1845 View in CoL

Type species

Scaphidium pusillum Gyllenhal, 1808 .

Remarks

Ptenidium is a well-defined genus of distinctive beetles distributed throughout the world, although most species have been described from the northern hemisphere, with the concentration being in the Palaearctic region. The establishment of a group of Neotropical species with distinctive pronotal and spermathecal characteristics was made by Darby (2016c), who placed them in a separate subgenus, Peruvium . It is to this subgenus that the three new species described below belong.