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Ranolus

Ranolus is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae from Southeast Asia and Oceania. 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. Orphilodes was later synonymized with Ranolus.

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Ranolus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Dermestidae
Subfamily: Orphilinae
Tribe: Ranolini
Háva, 2014
Genus: Ranolus
(Blair, 1929)
Type species
Ranolus cavernicola
(Blair, 1929)
Synonyms
  • Orphilodes Lawrence & Slipinski, 2005

Ranolus is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae from Southeast Asia and Oceania.1 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 2014.2 Orphilodes was later synonymized with Ranolus.3

Species

Ranolus contains the following seven species:1

  • Ranolus australis (Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005) — Australia
  • Ranolus caledonicus Háva, 2017 — New Caledonia
  • Ranolus cavernicola (Blair, 1929) — Malaysia
  • Ranolus malleecola (Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005) — Australia
  • Ranolus minor (Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005) — Australia
  • Ranolus papuanus (Háva, 2015) — Papua New Guinea
  • Ranolus tenebricola Háva, 2014 — Thailand
References

References

  1. Háva, Jiří (2022). "Dermestidae world (Coleoptera)". Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  2. Háva, Jiří (2014). "A new species of the genus Ranolus (Blair, 1929) from Thailand (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Orphilinae: Ranolini)". Studies and Reports (Taxonomical Series). 10 (2): 403–408.
  3. Háva, Jiří; Lawrence, John (2017). "Contribution to the genus 'Ranolus' Blair (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Ranolini), with new synonymy and combinations". Australian Entomologist. 44 (2): 103–104.