Orchesia

Life-forms

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

Familia: Melandryidae
Subfamilia: Melandryinae
Tribus: Orchesiini
Genus: Orchesia
Species: O. anaspioides – O. arnoldii – O. blandula – O. canaliculata – O. diversenotata – O. duplicata – O. elegantula – O. fasciata – O. fusiformis – O. grandicollis – O. imitans – O. kamberskyi – O. keili – O. luteipalpis – O. maculata – O. marseuli – O. micans – O. minor – O. ocularis – O. rennelli – O. undulata – O. turkini – O. vorontsovi
Name

Orchesia Latreille, 1807
References

Alekseev, V.I. & Bukejs, A. 2015. A new species of the genus Orchesia Latreille (Coleoptera: Melandryidae) from Baltic amber with a key to species described from fossil resins. Zootaxa 3947(4): 590–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.4.10 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Latreille, P.A. 1807. Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundem ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimus explicata. Tomus tertius. Parisiis et Argentorati: A. Koenig, 258 pp. BHL Reference page.

Atlas of false darkling beetles (Melandryidae) of Russia

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

"Orchesia". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
"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

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. 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.