Family ANOBIIDAE
Compiler and date details
December 2008 - Checklist of names supplied by Dr A.A. Calder, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra; data entered by R. Johnson, for ABRS
- Ptinidae.
Introduction
The common names for beetles of this family are indicative of their habits: furniture beetle — they bore into and damage furniture and timber; drugstore and tobacco beetles — they feed on and damage stored products; and spider beetles — one lives on remains of arthropds in spider nests. Other species live as inquilines in ants nests. One hundred and eighty-nine species in 38 genera are recorded here for Australia; Lawrence & Britton (1991: 564) gave an estimate of 225 species for Australia.
General References
Lawrence, J.F. & Britton, E.B. 1991. Coleoptera (Beetles). pp. 543-683 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137 (564)