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Orphinus
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Orphinus

Orphinus is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae, the skin beetles. The genus is distributed in Africa, Asia, and the Australian region, especially in tropical areas; at least one species is cosmopolitan. There are about 88 species.

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39 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Orphinus fulvipes

speciesOrphinus fulvipes

Falsoorphinus

subgenusFalsoorphinus

Orphinus japonicus

speciesOrphinus japonicus

Orphinus fasciatus

speciesOrphinus fasciatus

Orphinus terminalis

speciesOrphinus terminalis

Curtophinus

subgenusCurtophinus

Orphinus haemorrhoidalis

speciesOrphinus haemorrhoidalis

Orphinus bezdeki

speciesOrphinus bezdeki

Orphinus jiri

speciesOrphinus jiri

Orphinus sexmaculatus

speciesOrphinus sexmaculatus

Orphinus conjunctus

speciesOrphinus conjunctus

Orphinus funestus

speciesOrphinus funestus

Orphinus saundersi

speciesOrphinus saundersi

Orphinus oscitans

speciesOrphinus oscitans

Orphinus jucundus

speciesOrphinus jucundus

Orphinus occidentalis

speciesOrphinus occidentalis

Orphinus unifasciatus

speciesOrphinus unifasciatus

Orphinus ceciliense

speciesOrphinus ceciliense

Orphinus australicus

speciesOrphinus australicus

Orphinus casuarinae

speciesOrphinus casuarinae

Orphinus interioris

speciesOrphinus interioris

Orphinus affinis

speciesOrphinus affinis

Orphinus apicalis

speciesOrphinus apicalis

Orphinus aethiops

speciesOrphinus aethiops

Orphinus minor

speciesOrphinus minor

Orphinus nilgirensis

speciesOrphinus nilgirensis

Orphinus tabitha

speciesOrphinus tabitha

Orphinus parainfasciatus

speciesOrphinus parainfasciatus

Orphinus hartmanni

speciesOrphinus hartmanni

Orphinus sikkimensis

speciesOrphinus sikkimensis

Orphinus jurciceki

speciesOrphinus jurciceki

Orphinus quornensis

speciesOrphinus quornensis

Orphinus woodvillensis

speciesOrphinus woodvillensis

Orphinus takedai

speciesOrphinus takedai

Orphinus kenyensis

speciesOrphinus kenyensis

Orphinus katerina

speciesOrphinus katerina

Orphinus globulicornis

speciesOrphinus globulicornis

Orphinus biflexus

speciesOrphinus biflexus

Orphinus changdoi

speciesOrphinus changdoi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 642949.