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Ptinus bidens

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Ptinus bidens is a species in the family Ptinidae, order Coleoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Switzerland.

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Quick facts about Ptinus bidens

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Ptinus bidens live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Ptinus bidens is listed for 1 country.

Switzerland
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Switzerland

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Ptinus bidens as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Sweden

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Ptinus bidens endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Ptinus bidens classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyPtinidae
  6. genusPtinus
  7. SpeciesPtinus bidens A. G. Olivier, 1790

Synonyms Ptinus minutus, Ptinus quercus, Ptinus sycophanta

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Ptinus bidens

Other species in the same genus Ptinus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Ptinus bidens live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Ptinus bidens for 1 country: Switzerland. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Ptinus bidens an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Ptinus bidens as introduced in 1 country: Sweden, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Ptinus bidens?

Ptinus bidens (Ptinus bidens) belongs to the family Ptinidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Ptinus bidens (Ptinus bidens). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ptinus-bidens

MLA

“Ptinus bidens (Ptinus bidens).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ptinus-bidens.

BibTeX
@misc{ptinus_bidens_2026,
  title = {Ptinus bidens (Ptinus bidens)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ptinus-bidens},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}