{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = Háva, 2014 | taxon = Ranolus | authority = (Blair, 1929) | type_species = ''Ranolus cavernicola'' | type_species_authority = (Blair, 1929) | synonyms = *''Orphilodes'' <small>Lawrence & Slipinski, 2005</small> }}
'''''Ranolus''''' is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae from Southeast Asia and Oceania.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Háva |first=Jiří |date=2022 |title=Dermestidae world (Coleoptera) |url=http://dermestidae.wz.cz/ |access-date=12 February 2023}}</ref> It was originally described as a subgenus of ''Attagenus'', containing only the species ''Ranolus cavernicola''. It was later found to be a separate genus, and was placed in its own tribe, Ranolini, along with ''Orphilodes''. A second species, ''Ranolus tenebricola'', was described by Jiří Háva in 2014.<ref name="Hava2014">{{cite journal|last=Háva|first=Jiří|year=2014|title=A new species of the genus Ranolus (Blair, 1929) from Thailand (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Orphilinae: Ranolini)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265727404|journal=Studies and Reports (Taxonomical Series)|volume=10|issue=2|pages=403–408}}</ref> ''Orphilodes'' was later synonymized with ''Ranolus''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Háva |first=Jiří |last2=Lawrence |first2=John |date=2017 |title=Contribution to the genus 'Ranolus' Blair (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Ranolini), with new synonymy and combinations |journal=Australian Entomologist |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=103-104}}</ref>
==Species== ''Ranolus'' contains the following seven species:<ref name=":2" /> * ''Ranolus australis'' <small>(Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005)</small> — Australia * ''Ranolus caledonicus'' <small>Háva, 2017</small> — New Caledonia * ''Ranolus cavernicola'' <small>(Blair, 1929)</small> — Malaysia * ''Ranolus malleecola'' <small>(Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005)</small> — Australia * ''Ranolus minor'' <small>(Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005)</small> — Australia * ''Ranolus papuanus'' <small>(Háva, 2015)</small> — Papua New Guinea * ''Ranolus tenebricola'' <small>Háva, 2014</small> — Thailand
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