Onthophilus

Onthophilus Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Onthophilus striatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
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]

Onthophilus striatus

Species

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

1. "Onthophilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
2. "Onthophilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
3. "Onthophilus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
4. 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

• 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

• Media related to Onthophilus at Wikimedia Commons