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Genus Orphilus

Small Black Beetle under bark - Orphilus subnitidus Beetle - Orphilus ater Orphilus Orphilus Ptinidae swept from white broidaea - Orphilus subnitidus Ptinidae swept from white broidaea - Orphilus subnitidus Beetles - Orphilus Beetle on Horkelia - Orphilus subnitidus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Dermestidae (Carpet Beetles)
Genus Orphilus
Explanation of Names
Orphilus Erichson 1846
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, 3 extant spp. total(1)
Size
2.3-2.8 mm(2)
Range
Holarctic genus; in our area, 1 sp. eastern (NB-FL to ON-WI-TX), another western (BC-CA to AB-NE-NM)(3)(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.