Orphnus

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: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Orphninae
Genus: Orphnus
Species: 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. 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.