Ptenidium formicetorum
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Added by stephen_thorpe on July 24, 2018 04:15
Updated by stephen_thorpe on July 24, 2018 04:28
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Stephen Thorpe (stephen_thorpe)
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NAME
Ptenidium formicetorum Kraatz, 1851
PARENT
Ptenidium
BIOSTATUS
Exotic, present in the wild.
Earliest N.Z. record: 'SI. SOUTHLAND: 38 examples, Halswell, garden refuse, 19.i.1984' Southland is in error for Mid Canterbury!.
DISTRIBUTION
South Island (MC).
HABITAT
Terrestrial.
REFERENCES
Darby, M. 2018: Studies of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera) in the spirit collection of the Natural History Museum, London 2: New species and records from P. Hammond's visit to New Zealand in 1983-84. Entomologist's monthly magazine, 154(3): 179-196. DOI [See p. 182, and 'Figs 2A, 2E, 2I']
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