{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Orphilus.niger.-.calwer.16.14.jpg | image_caption = ''Orphilus niger'' | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = J. L. LeConte, 1861 | taxon = Orphilus | authority = Erichson, 1846 }}
'''''Orphilus''''' is a genus of beetles native to the Palearctic (including Europe), the Near East and North America.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holloway |first1=Graham J. |last2=Herrmann |first2=Andreas |title=Orphilus aegeanus (Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Orphilinae): a new species from Greece and Turkey |journal=Zootaxa |date=17 February 2023 |volume=5244 |issue=2 |pages=197–200 |doi=10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5244.2.8|doi-access=free |url=https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/111006/1/48480-Article%20Text-52561-56795-10-20230217.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Háva |first1=Jiří |last2=Kadej |first2=Marcin |title=Contribution to Knowledge of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera) from Afghanistan with Description of Three New Species |journal=Florida Entomologist |date=December 2014 |volume=97 |issue=4 |pages=1414–1423 |doi=10.1653/024.097.0416|doi-access=free }}</ref> It contains the following species:<ref>[http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Dermestidae.txt Dermestidae Species List] at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 14 May 2012.</ref>
* ''Orphilus aegeanus'' <small>Holloway and Herrmann, 2023</small> * ''Orphilus africanus'' <small>Háva, 2005</small> * ''Orphilus ater'' <small>Erichson, 1848</small> * ''Orphilus beali'' <small>Zhantiev, 2001</small> * ''Orphilus dubius'' <small>Wickham, 1912</small> * ''Orphilus niger'' <small>(Rossi, 1790)</small> * ''Orphilus subnitidus'' <small>LeConte, 1861</small>
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==External links== {{Commons}} {{Wikispecies}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604043426/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=118870 ''Orphilus'' at Fauna Europaea]
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Category:Dermestidae genera Category:Orphilus Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
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