Orchesia

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

Orchesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Melandryidae
Tribe:	Orchesiini
Genus:	Orchesia Latreille, 1807

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. "Orchesia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
2. "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. Pensoft Publishers (88): 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. 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