{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Orcus bilunulatus (14333181980).jpg | image_caption = ''Orcus bilunulatus'' | taxon = Orcus | authority = Mulsant, 1850 | display_parents = 2 }}
'''''Orcus''''' is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 18 described species in ''Orcus'', found in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Java, Sumba, and the Kai Islands.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=Laczynski2010/>
==Species== These 18 species belong to the genus ''Orcus'': {{Div col|colwidth=29em}} * ''Orcus artensis'' <small>Crotch, 1874</small> (New Caledonia) * ''Orcus australasiae'' <small>(Boisduval, 1835)</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus bilunulatus'' <small>(Boisduval, 1835)</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus biroi'' <small>Weise, 1902</small> (New Guinea) * ''Orcus chujoi'' <small>Bielawski, 1962</small> (New Caledonia) * ''Orcus cinctus'' <small>Weise, 1902</small> (New Guinea) * ''Orcus citri'' <small>Lea, 1902</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus cordiformis'' <small>sp. nov.</small> (New Guinea) * ''Orcus cyancocephalus'' <small>Mulsant, 1850</small> (Australia, New Guinea) * ''Orcus janthinus'' <small>Mulsant, 1850</small> (Java, Sumba, New Guinea) * ''Orcus lafertei'' <small>Mulsant, 1853</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus nigricollis'' <small>Weise, 1902</small> (Key Islands, New Guinea) * ''Orcus nummularis'' <small>(Boisduval, 1835)</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus obscurus'' <small>Blackburn, 1892</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus punctulatus'' <small>Blackburn, 1892</small> (Australia, New Guinea) * ''Orcus quadrimaculatus'' <small>Gadeau de Kerville, 1884</small> (Australia) * ''Orcus tetrafasciatus'' <small>Laczynski, 2009</small> (New Guinea) * ''Orcus viridulus'' <small>Laczynski, 2009</small> (New Guinea) {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Orcus'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1043119 | website=GBIF | access-date=2019-05-21 }}</ref>
<ref name=Laczynski2010> {{Cite journal | title = Revision of the Genus Orcus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini) | date = 2010 | last1 = Laczynski | first1 = Piotr | last2 = Tomaszewska | first2 = Wioletta | journal = Annales Zoologici | volume = 59 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232681851 | doi = 10.3161/000345409X484955 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | title = Valid genera and subgenera of Coccinellidae | date = 1990 | last1 = Fürsch | first1 = Helmut | journal = Coccinella | volume = 2| issue = 1| pages = 7–18 | issn = 0935-8196 | url = https://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/ADDPAGES/Andrey_Ukrainsky_Library/References_files/Chazeau90-2007b.pdf }} * {{Cite book | title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea | date = 2007 | editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I. | editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A. | publisher = Apollo Books | isbn = 978-8788757675 }} {{refend}}
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Category:Coccinellidae Category:Coccinellidae genera
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