Abstract
Ptinus latro Fab. (1775) and P. hirtellus Sturm (1837) (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) have for long been accepted as separate, sexually dimorphic species. The females of the two forms are abundantly distinct, but no satisfactory separation character for males has ever been described (see Hinton's monograph1).
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Hinton, H. E., Bull. Ent. Res., 31, 331 (1941).
Suomalainen, E., “Advan. Genet.”, 3, 193 (1950).
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MOORE, B., WOODROFFE, G. & SANDERSON, A. Polymorphism and Parthenogenesis in a Ptinid Beetle. Nature 177, 847–848 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177847b0
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