Orphnus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Orphninae
Genus: Orphnus
Species: O. brevialatus – O. longicornis –

Name

• Orphnus Macleay, 1819

Primary references

• Frolov, A.V. & Akhmetova, L. 2015. A new brachypterous scarab species, Orphnus longicornis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae), from the East African Rift. Zootaxa 4039(3): 475–477. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Macleay 1819: Horae Entom., 1 (1), 119.

References

• Frolov, A.V. 2013: New and little known species of the genus Orphnus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from the East African Rift. Zootaxa 3710(3): 297–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.3.8 Reference page. 
• Frolov, A.V. & Akhmetova, L.A. 2015. New data on the rare Afrotropical scarab beetles Orphnus drumonti Frolov and Delopleurus naviauxi Frolov et Cambefort (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Orphninae and Scarabaeinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5444. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5444. Reference page. 
• Frolov, A.V. & Akhmetova, L.A. 2020. Description of a new brachypterous scarab species, Orphnus brevialatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from East Africa, with notes on flightlessness in the orphnines. Zootaxa 4750(3): 425–431. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.8 Reference page. 
• Frolov, A.V., Akhmetova, L. 2021. Review of the Orphninae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Sri Lanka, with description of a new species of genus Orphnus Macleay, 1819. European Journal of Taxonomy. 767(1): 40–54. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.767.1485 Reference page.