Osphya

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: Osphyinae
Genus: Osphya
Species: O. aeneipennis – O. aerata – O. bipunctata – O. cylindromorpha – O. dissimilis – O. formosana – O. griseofasciata – O. harmandi – O. nigriventris – O. nigroapicalis – O. orientalis – O. trilineata – O. uniformis – O. vandalitiae
Name

Osphya Illiger, 1807

References

[The genus Osphya in the Pyrenees-Orientales (Coleoptera, Melandryidae).]

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

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Osphya:

Osphya aeneipennis Kriechbaumer, 1848 g
Osphya bipunctata (Fabricius, 1775) g
Osphya formosana Pic, 1910 g
Osphya lutea b
Osphya trilineata Pic, 1910 g
Osphya vandalitiae (Kraatz, 1868) g
Osphya varians (LeConte, 1866) g b

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References

"Osphya". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
"Osphya Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
"Osphya 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.