# Ontholestes

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{{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](/source/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'':
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* ''[Ontholestes asiaticus](/source/Ontholestes_asiaticus)'' <small>Smetana, 1959</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes aurosparsus](/source/Ontholestes_aurosparsus)'' <small>Fauvel, 1895</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes callistus](/source/Ontholestes_callistus)'' <small>Hochhuth, 2012</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes cingulatus](/source/Ontholestes_cingulatus)'' <small>(Gravenhorst, 1802)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g b</sup></span> (gold-and-brown rove beetle)
* ''[Ontholestes gracilis](/source/Ontholestes_gracilis)'' <small>Sharp, 1874</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes hairaerensis](/source/Ontholestes_hairaerensis)'' <small>Li & Chen,/1993</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes haroldi](/source/Ontholestes_haroldi)'' <small>(Eppelsheim, 1884)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes hayashii](/source/Ontholestes_hayashii)'' <small>Li, 1992</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes inauratus](/source/Ontholestes_inauratus)'' <small>Mannerheim, 1830</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes marginalis](/source/Ontholestes_marginalis)'' <small>(Gené, 1836)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes murinus](/source/Ontholestes_murinus)'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes napoensis](/source/Ontholestes_napoensis)'' <small>Zhuo Yang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, 2012</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes oculatus](/source/Ontholestes_oculatus)'' <small>Sharp, 1874</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes orientalis](/source/Ontholestes_orientalis)'' <small>Bernhauer, 1906</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes paramurinus](/source/Ontholestes_paramurinus)'' <small>Li & Chen, 1993</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes proximus](/source/Ontholestes_proximus)'' <small>Kirshenblat, 1936</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes rosti](/source/Ontholestes_rosti)'' <small>Bernhauer, ms</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes simulator](/source/Ontholestes_simulator)'' <small>Kirshenblat, 1936</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes tenuicornis](/source/Ontholestes_tenuicornis)'' <small>Kraatz, 1859</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes tessellatus](/source/Ontholestes_tessellatus)'' <small>Geoffroy, 1785</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
* ''[Ontholestes xinqiaoensis](/source/Ontholestes_xinqiaoensis)'' <small>Zhuo Yang, Hong-Zhang Zhou, 2012</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> c g</sup></span>
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<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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