# Orphilus

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{{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](/source/John_Lawrence_LeConte), 1861
| taxon = Orphilus
| authority = [Erichson](/source/Wilhelm_Ferdinand_Erichson), 1846
}}

'''''Orphilus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [beetle](/source/beetle)s native to the [Palearctic](/source/Palearctic) (including [Europe](/source/Europe)), the [Near East](/source/Near_East) and [North America](/source/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](/source/Orphilus_aegeanus)'' <small>Holloway and Herrmann, 2023</small>
* ''[Orphilus africanus](/source/Orphilus_africanus)'' <small>Háva, 2005</small>
* ''[Orphilus ater](/source/Orphilus_ater)'' <small>Erichson, 1848</small>
* ''[Orphilus beali](/source/Orphilus_beali)'' <small>Zhantiev, 2001</small>
* ''[Orphilus dubius](/source/Orphilus_dubius)'' <small>Wickham, 1912</small>
* ''[Orphilus niger](/source/Orphilus_niger)'' <small>(Rossi, 1790)</small>
* ''[Orphilus subnitidus](/source/Orphilus_subnitidus)'' <small>LeConte, 1861</small>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[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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