Species Ocypus olens - Devil's Coach Horse

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Devil's Coach Horse or another Rove Beetle? - Ocypus olens

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)

Subfamily Staphylininae (Large Rove Beetles)

Tribe Staphylinini

Subtribe Staphylinina

Genus Ocypus

Species olens (Devil's Coach Horse)

Explanation of Names

Ocypus (Ocypus) olens (O. Müller 1764)

Size

25-28 mm

Range

native to w. Palaearctic(1), adventive in NA (w. US: WA-CA-AZ)(2)

Food

They often eat, and may help to control, the introduced brown garden snail. --Margaret Thayer

Remarks

earliest record in our area: CA 1931(2)

Works Cited

1.	Coleoptera Poloniae

2.	American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by Boris Büche on 29 July, 2007 - 12:53pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 4 March, 2013 - 5:32pm

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