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Tribe Osoriini

Rove 2 - Osorius latipes Staphylinid - Osorius Rove Beetle - Osorius rove beetle - Osorius Beetle - Osorius Osorius? from grassland pitfall trap - Osorius latipes Holotrochus - male Rove Beetle, possibly Osorius latipes?
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 Osoriinae (Unmargined Rove Beetles)
Tribe Osoriini
Numbers
12 spp. in 2 genera in our area; almost 70 genera worldwide(1)
Identification
keys in(2)
Range
mostly tropical; both genera represented in NA are almost worldwide in distribution (in our area, mostly southern)(1)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.A synoptic review of the beetles of the tribe Osoriini from the Western Hemisphere
Notman H. 1925. Proc. USNM 67: 1-26.