Onthophilus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Histeridae |
| Subfamily: | Onthophilinae |
| Genus: | Onthophilus Leach, 1817 |
Onthophilus is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are more than 40 described species in Onthophilus.[1][2][3] Fossils of the genus have been discovered in Burmese amber, estimated to be 100 million years old.[4]
Species[edit]
These 41 species belong to the genus Onthophilus:
- Onthophilus affinis Redtenbacher, 1849
- Onthophilus alternatus (Say, 1825)
- Onthophilus aonoi Ôhara & Nakane, 1986
- Onthophilus australis Helawa & Howden, 1977
- Onthophilus bickhardti Reitter, 1909
- Onthophilus convictor Normand, 1919
- Onthophilus cynomysi Helava, 1978
- Onthophilus deflectus Helava, 1978
- Onthophilus extraordinarius Reichardt, 1941
- Onthophilus flavicornis Lewis, 1884
- Onthophilus flohri Lewis, 1888
- Onthophilus foveipennis Lewis, 1885
- Onthophilus giganteus Helava, 1978
- Onthophilus globulosus (Olivier, 1789)
- Onthophilus heilogjiangensis Ji Lingke, 1993
- Onthophilus intermedius Handschin, 1944
- Onthophilus intermixtus Helava, 1978
- Onthophilus irregularis Howden & Laplante, 2003
- Onthophilus jakli Kapler, 1993
- Onthophilus julii Lewis, 1892
- Onthophilus kamiyai Adachi, 1930
- Onthophilus kirni Ross, 1944
- Onthophilus lecontei Horn, 1870
- Onthophilus lijiangensis Zhou & Lou, 2002
- Onthophilus melampus Reichardt, 1933
- Onthophilus niponensis Lewis, 1907
- Onthophilus nodatus J. E. LeConte, 1844
- Onthophilus ordinarius Lewis, 1879
- Onthophilus ostreatus Lewis, 1879
- Onthophilus pluricostatus J. E. LeConte, 1844
- Onthophilus punctatus (O. F. Müller, 1776)
- Onthophilus reyesi Kryzhanovskij, 1992
- Onthophilus rugatus Therond
- Onthophilus sculptilis Lewis, 1892
- Onthophilus silvae Lewis, 1884
- Onthophilus smetanai Mazur, 1994
- Onthophilus soltaui Casey, 1893
- Onthophilus striatus (Forster, 1771)
- Onthophilus thomomysi Helava, 1978
- Onthophilus tuberculatus Lewis, 1892
- Onthophilus wenzeli Helava, 1978
References[edit]
- ^ "Onthophilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Onthophilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ "Onthophilus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
- ^ Jiang, Rixin; Song, Weicai; Yang, Huiyu; Shi, Chao; Wang, Shuo (July 2020). "Discovery of the first Onthophilus species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Histeridae)". Cretaceous Research. 111: 104443. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104443. S2CID 216238703.
Further reading[edit]
- Mazur, Slawomir (2011). A Concise Catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera). WULS - SGGW Press. ISBN 978-83-7583-3171.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.
External links[edit]
Media related to Onthophilus at Wikimedia Commons
