Orchesia

Genus of beetles

Orchesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Melandryidae
Tribe: Orchesiini
Genus: Orchesia
Latreille, 1807

Orchesia is a genus of false darkling beetles in the family Melandryidae. There are about 19 described species in Orchesia.[1][2][3]

Species

These 19 species belong to the genus Orchesia:

  • Orchesia blandula Brancsik, 1874 g
  • Orchesia canaliculata (Alekseev & Bukejs, 2015) g
  • Orchesia castanea Melsheimer, 1846 g b
  • Orchesia cultriformis Laliberte, 1967 g b
  • Orchesia fasciata (Illiger, 1798) g
  • Orchesia fusiformis Solsky, 1871 g
  • Orchesia gracilis Melsheimer, 1846 b
  • Orchesia grandicollis Rosenhauer, 1847 g
  • Orchesia keili Roubal, 1933 g
  • Orchesia luteipalpis Mulsant & Guillebeau, 1857 g
  • Orchesia maculata Mulsant & Godart, 1856 g
  • Orchesia micans (Panzer, 1794) g
  • Orchesia minor Walker, 1837 g
  • Orchesia ornata Horn, 1888 g b
  • Orchesia ovata Laliberte, 1967 g b
  • Orchesia rasnitzyni Nikitsky, 2011 g
  • Orchesia rennelli Gressitt & Samuelson, 1964 g
  • Orchesia turkini Alekseev & Bukejs, 2012 g
  • Orchesia undulata Kraatz, 1853 g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Orchesia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. ^ a b "Orchesia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. ^ "Orchesia Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  4. ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  5. ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-06.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  • Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN 978-83-935107-9-5.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

  • Media related to Orchesia at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Orchesia
  • Wikidata: Q15635724
  • Wikispecies: Orchesia
  • AFD: Orchesia
  • BioLib: 14182
  • BOLD: 167354
  • BugGuide: 47939
  • Fauna Europaea: 123347
  • Fauna Europaea (new): c3f49b19-bcfd-4c5f-9fd2-73c9af7ecb05
  • GBIF: 2079599
  • iNaturalist: 176491
  • IRMNG: 1296083
  • NBN: NHMSYS0020152862
  • NCBI: 351493
  • NZOR: ca419915-f928-4b8e-a42e-49bbe6b7b9d4
  • Open Tree of Life: 486917
  • WoRMS: 989881


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