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Onthophilus

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Description

Onthophilus is a genus of clown beetles in the family Histeridae. There are more than 40 described species in Onthophilus.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onthophilus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1044602	https://www.gbif.org/species/1044602
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	304305	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=304305

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Histeridae : Onthophilus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Coleopterida	Kukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
order	Coleoptera	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Staphyliniformia	Lameere 1900
superfamily	Hydrophiloidea	Latreille 1802
family	Histeridae	Gyllenhal 1808
subfamily	Onthophilinae	MacLeay 1819
genus	Onthophilus	Leach 1817

Scientific Name

Onthophilus Leach, 1817

Name Published In

Leach, William E. 1817. The zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. E. Nodder & Son, London. Vol. 3: i-v; 1-151; pls. 121-150.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Onthophilus	genus	belongs to Onthophilinae	stated with evidence	Bouchard et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. Bouchard, Y. Bousquet, and A. E. Davies, M. A. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. F. Lawrence, C. H. C. Lyal, A. F. Newton, C. A. M. Reid, M. Schmitt, A. lipiski, A. B. T. Smith. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88:1-972

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onthophilus

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Onthophilus affinis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus alternatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus aonoi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus australis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus bickhardti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus convictor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus cynomysi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus deflectus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus extraordinarius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus flavicornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus flohri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus foveipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus giganteus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus globulosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus heilogjiangensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus intermedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Onthophilus intermixtus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus irregularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus jakli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus julii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus kamiyai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus kirni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus lecontei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus lijiangensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus melampus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus niponensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus nodatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus ordinarius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus ostreatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus pluricostatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus reyesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus rugatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus sculptilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus silvae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus smetanai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus soltaui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus striatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Onthophilus thomomysi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus tuberculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Onthophilus wenzeli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Orthophilus Westwood, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Histeridae : *Orthophilus*
Scolytus Muller, 1776	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Histeridae : *Scolytus*
Hypsenor Villa & Villa, 1833	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Histeridae : *Hypsenor*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1817	Onthophilus Leach
2011	Onthophilus Bouchard et al.

References

Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., et al (2011) Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta), ZooKeys 88, 1-972

Helava J (1978) A revision of the Nearctic species of the genus Onthophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 15(5): 1-43. - via Checklist of Beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second Edition.

Gustafsson, B. (Col.) (2004) Catalogus Coleopterorum Sueciae. Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm, Excelfil hämtad från http://www.nrm.se/en/catalogus.html.se. - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Mazur, Slawomir, 1997: A world catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea). Genus, International Journal of Invertebrate Taxonomy (Supplement). 373. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Australian Faunal Directory, 2007 version. Available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/ . - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Zool. Miscell., 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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