Onthophilus
Temporal range:
Onthophilus striatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

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. ↑ 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.


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