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The devil's coach-horse beetle (Ocypus olens) is a species of beetle belonging to the large family of the rove beetles (Staphylinidae). [2] It was originally included in the genus Staphylinus in 1764, [ 3 ] and some authors and biologists still use this classification.
One well-known species is the devil's coach-horse beetle (Ocypus olens). For some other species, see list of British rove beetles. Anatomy.
Ocypus is a genus of rove beetles in the subfamily Staphylininae. Species ... Ocypus olens (O. Müller, 1764) - devil's coach-horse; Ocypus ophthalmicus (Scopoli, 1763)
The name "devil's coach horse" is used for Ocypus olens, another large species of rove beetle found in Europe and North America, so named because of a medieval belief that the Devil took this form to carry away the corpses of sinners.
Family Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 (rove beetles) Devil's coach horse beetle, Ocypus olens, a rove beetle; Infraorder Scarabaeiformia. Superfamily Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802. Family Pleocomidae LeConte, 1861 (rain beetles) Family Geotrupidae Latreille, 1802 (earth-boring scarab beetles) Family Belohinidae Paulian, 1959
Platydracus cinnamopterus in SW Pennsylvania. Staphylininae are a subfamily of rove beetles (family Staphylinidae). They contain the typical rove beetles with their long but fairly robust blunt-headed and -tipped bodies and short elytra, as well as some more unusually-shaped lineages.
Adult staphylinoids are generally small beetles no more than a few millimetres long, though Staphylinidae can reach 50 mm long and Silphidae can reach 45 mm. [1] The superfamily includes the smallest beetles (and the smallest of all non-parasitic insects) in family Ptiliidae.
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