Orchesia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b "Orchesia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ a b "Orchesia Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Orchesia Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-06.
Further reading
[edit]- 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
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Media related to Orchesia at Wikimedia Commons
