''Gibbium psylloides'', also known as the hump beetle or the smooth spider beetle (the latter of which it shares with ''

Gibbium aequinoctiale ''Gibbium aequinoctiale'', the smooth spider beetle, is a species of spider beetle in the family Ptinidae. It is found in the Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of ...

''), is a species of

spider beetle Spider beetles make up the subfamily Ptininae, in the family Ptinidae. There are approximately 70 genera and 600 species in the subfamily, with about 12 genera and 70 species in North America north of Mexico. Spider beetles have round bodies wi ...

in the genus '' Gibbium''. It is native to the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

, and

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. It was first described by Paweł Czenpiński in 1778. North American references to ''G. psylloides'' actually refer to ''

''.

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https://my-traveltips.com/ Beetles described in 1778 Bostrichoidea {{Bostrichoidea-stub