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Dorcatominae
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Dorcatominae

Dorcatominae is a subfamily of death-watch and spider beetles in the family Ptinidae. There are about 16 genera and at least 190 described species in Dorcatominae.

The subfamily Dorcatominae, along with Anobiinae and several others, were formerly considered members of the family Anobiidae, but the family name has since been changed to Ptinidae.

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7 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Dorcatomini

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Calymmaderini

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Petaliini

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Prothecini

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Stagetomorphus

genusStagetomorphus

Mirosternini

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Cryptoramorphini

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 373416.