{{short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Gold and Brown Rove Beetle - Ontholestes cingulatus, Waterways Farm, Lovettsville, Virginia.jpg | image_caption = ''Ontholestes cingulatus'' | taxon = Ontholestes | authority = Ganglbauer, 1895 | display_parents = 2 }}

'''''Ontholestes''''' is a genus of large rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Ontholestes''.<ref name=catlife/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=bugref/><ref name=eol/> thumb|''Ontholestes cingulatus''

==Species== These 21 species belong to the genus ''Ontholestes'': {{Div col|colwidth=27em}} * ''Ontholestes asiaticus'' <small>Smetana, 1959</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes aurosparsus'' <small>Fauvel, 1895</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes callistus'' <small>Hochhuth, 2012</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes cingulatus'' <small>(Gravenhorst, 1802)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span> (gold-and-brown rove beetle) * ''Ontholestes gracilis'' <small>Sharp, 1874</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes hairaerensis'' <small>Li & Chen,/1993</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes haroldi'' <small>(Eppelsheim, 1884)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes hayashii'' <small>Li, 1992</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes inauratus'' <small>Mannerheim, 1830</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes marginalis'' <small>(Gené, 1836)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes murinus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes napoensis'' <small>Zhuo Yang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, 2012</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes oculatus'' <small>Sharp, 1874</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes orientalis'' <small>Bernhauer, 1906</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes paramurinus'' <small>Li & Chen, 1993</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes proximus'' <small>Kirshenblat, 1936</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes rosti'' <small>Bernhauer, ms</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes simulator'' <small>Kirshenblat, 1936</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes tenuicornis'' <small>Kraatz, 1859</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes tessellatus'' <small>Geoffroy, 1785</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> * ''Ontholestes xinqiaoensis'' <small>Zhuo Yang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, 2012</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span> {{Div col end}} <small>Data sources: i = ITIS,<ref name=itis/> c = Catalogue of Life,<ref name=catlife/> g = GBIF,<ref name=gbif/> b = Bugguide.net<ref name=bugref/></small>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System | url=https://www.itis.gov/ | accessdate=2018-04-06 }}</ref> <ref name=eol> {{Cite web| title=''Ontholestes'' Overview | url=http://eol.org/pages/2925044/overview | website=Encyclopedia of Life | accessdate=2018-04-06 }}</ref> <ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Browse ''Ontholestes'' | url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/browse/tree/id/d4400ca8ad65e0b25dce0c89b2c68305 | website=Catalogue of Life | accessdate=2018-04-06 }}</ref> <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Ontholestes'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4437460 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2018-04-06 }}</ref> <ref name=bugref> {{Cite web| title=''Ontholestes'' Genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/9547 | website=BugGuide.net | accessdate=2018-04-06 }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | last1 = Blatchley | first1 = W.S. | date = 1910 | title = An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up | publisher = Nature Pub. }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice | last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves | last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E. | last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A. | last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F. | last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C. | last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F. | last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M. | last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael | last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam | last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T. | display-authors = 4 | date = 2011 | title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) | journal = ZooKeys | publisher = Pensoft Publishers | issue = 88 | pages = 1–972 | issn = 1313-2989 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 | doi-access = free | pmid = 21594053 | pmc = 3088472 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Brunke | first1 = A. | last2 = Marshall | first2 = S. | date = 2011 | title = Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 75 | pages = 29–68 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.75.767 | doi-access = free | pmid = 21594139 | pmc = 3088045 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Frank | first1 = J.H. | last2 = Ahn | first2 = K.J. | date = 2011 | title = Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 107 | pages = 1–98 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.107.1651 | pmid = 22792029 | pmc = 3392188 | doi-access = free }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Klimaszewski | first1 = J. | last2 = McLean | first2 = J. | last3 = Chandler | first3 = D. | last4 = Savard | first4 = K. | last5 = Li | first5 = A. | display-authors = 4 | date = 2009 | title = Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2 | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 22 | pages = 19–33 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.177 | doi-access = free | s2cid = 84892871 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Klimaszewski | first1 = J. | last2 = McLean | first2 = J. | last3 = Li | first3 = A. | last4 = Savard | first4 = K. | date = 2009 | title = Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1 | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 22 | pages = 5–17 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.22.86 | doi-access = free | url = https://zenodo.org/records/576531/files/ZK_article_2065.pdf }} * {{Cite book | last1 = LeConte | first1 = J.L. | date = 1861 | title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732 | series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | volume = 3 | issue = 136 | isbn = 0665100558 | doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 | doi-access = free }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Mazur | first1 = Slawomir | editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I. | editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A. | date = 2004 | title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera | series = Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea | publisher = Apollo Books | pages = 68–102 | isbn = 87-88757-74-9 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = White | first1 = Richard E. | date = 1998 | orig-date = 1983 | title = A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | isbn = 0395910897 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894 }} {{refend}}

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