# Orchesia

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***Orchesia*** is a genus of [false darkling beetles](/source/False_darkling_beetle) in the family [Melandryidae](/source/Melandryidae). There are about 19 described species in *Orchesia*.[1][2][3]

## Species

These 19 species belong to the genus *Orchesia*:

- *[Orchesia blandula](/source/Orchesia_blandula)* Brancsik, 1874 g
- *[Orchesia canaliculata](/source/Orchesia_canaliculata)* (Alekseev & Bukejs, 2015) g
- *[Orchesia castanea](/source/Orchesia_castanea)* Melsheimer, 1846 g b
- *[Orchesia cultriformis](/source/Orchesia_cultriformis)* Laliberte, 1967 g b
- *[Orchesia fasciata](/source/Orchesia_fasciata)* (Illiger, 1798) g
- *[Orchesia fusiformis](/source/Orchesia_fusiformis)* Solsky, 1871 g
- *[Orchesia gracilis](/source/Orchesia_gracilis)* Melsheimer, 1846 b
- *[Orchesia grandicollis](/source/Orchesia_grandicollis)* Rosenhauer, 1847 g
- *[Orchesia keili](/source/Orchesia_keili)* Roubal, 1933 g
- *[Orchesia luteipalpis](/source/Orchesia_luteipalpis)* Mulsant & Guillebeau, 1857 g
- *[Orchesia maculata](/source/Orchesia_maculata)* Mulsant & Godart, 1856 g
- *[Orchesia micans](/source/Orchesia_micans)* (Panzer, 1794) g
- *[Orchesia minor](/source/Orchesia_minor)* Walker, 1837 g
- *[Orchesia ornata](/source/Orchesia_ornata)* Horn, 1888 g b
- *[Orchesia ovata](/source/Orchesia_ovata)* Laliberte, 1967 g b
- *[Orchesia rasnitzyni](/source/Orchesia_rasnitzyni)* Nikitsky, 2011 g
- *[Orchesia rennelli](/source/Orchesia_rennelli)* Gressitt & Samuelson, 1964 g
- *[Orchesia turkini](/source/Orchesia_turkini)* Alekseev & Bukejs, 2012 g
- *[Orchesia undulata](/source/Orchesia_undulata)* Kraatz, 1853 g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]

## References

1. ["*Orchesia*"](https://www.gbif.org/species/2079599). *GBIF*. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

1. ["*Orchesia* Genus Information"](https://bugguide.net/node/view/47939). *BugGuide.net*. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

1. ["*Orchesia* Overview"](http://eol.org/pages/3487171/overview). *Encyclopedia of Life*. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

1. ["ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System"](https://www.itis.gov/). Retrieved 2018-04-06.

1. ["Catalogue of Life"](http://www.catalogueoflife.org/). Retrieved 2018-04-06.

## Further reading

- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H. (eds.) (2002). *American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea*. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). [*An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up). Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". *ZooKeys*. '***(88): 1–972. Pensoft Publishers. [doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807). [ISSN 1313-2989](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1313-2989). [PMC 3088472](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088472). [PMID 21594053](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21594053)***
- Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). *Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis*. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN 978-83-935107-9-5.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). [*Classification of the Coleoptera of North America*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732). Vol. 3, no. 136. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Smithsonian Institution. [doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459](https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.38459). ISBN 0665100558.
- White, Richard E. (1998 [1983]). [*A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides)*](https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

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