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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.
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
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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.