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Anobiinae  Fleming, 1821
Taxonomic Serial No.: 678614

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): death watch beetles [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderBostrichiformia Forbes, 1926  
                                        SuperfamilyBostrichoidea Latreille, 1802  
                                           FamilyPtinidae Latreille, 1802 – spider beetles  
                                              SubfamilyAnobiinae Fleming, 1821 – death watch beetles  
    Direct Children:  
                                                 Genus Actenobius Fall, 1905  
                                                 Genus Anobiopsis Fall, 1905  
                                                 Genus Anobium Fabricius, 1775  
                                                 Genus Colposternus Fall, 1905  
                                                 Genus Ctenobium LeConte, 1865  
                                                 Genus Desmatogaster Knutson, 1963  
                                                 Genus Euceratocerus LeConte, 1874  
                                                 Genus Falsogastrallus Pic, 1914  
                                                 Genus Gastrallus Jacquelin du Val, 1860  
                                                 Genus Hadrobregmus Thomson, 1859  
                                                 Genus Hemicoelus LeConte, 1861  
                                                 Genus Microbregma Seidlitz, 1889  
                                                 Genus Nicobium LeConte, 1861  
                                                 Genus Oligomerus Redtenbacher, 1849  
                                                 Genus Platybregmus Fisher, 1934  
                                                 Genus Priobium Motschulsky, 1845  
                                                 Genus Ptilinobium White, 1976  
                                                 Genus Stegobium Motschulsky, 1860  
                                                 Genus Trichodesma LeConte, 1861  
                                                 Genus Xeranobium Fall, 1905  
       

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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, version 2.2, database (version 2.2)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2025). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, v2.2 (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Anobiinae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Anobiinae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Philips, T. Keith / Arnett, Ross H., Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2002   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family 70. Anobiidae Fleming 1821   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: American Beetles, vol. 2 Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea   
  Page(s): 245-260   
  Publisher: CRC Press LLC   
  Publication Place: Boca Raton, Florida, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-8493-0954-9   
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  Reference for: Anobiinae   
       

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