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Orphilus beali

Orphilus beali is a species of carpet beetle found in Europe and Middle East.

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Orphilus beali
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Dermestidae
Genus: Orphilus
Species:
O. beali
Binomial name
Orphilus beali
Zhantiev, 20011

Orphilus beali is a species of carpet beetle found in Europe (Albania, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, with possible records from Italy) and Middle East (Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria).23

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  1. Zhantiev, R.D. (2001). "Dermestids of the genus Orphilus Er. (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) of Palaearctic fauna". Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 80: 611–619. Archived from the original on 4 July 2024.
  2. Háva, Jiří (2023). "World Dermestidae. Subfamily Megatominae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  3. Herrmann, Andreas (2024). "Dermestidae (Abbildungen)". Archived from the original on 2 June 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2024.