''Ranolus'' is a genus of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
s in the family
Dermestidae
Dermestidae are a family of Coleoptera that are commonly referred to as skin beetles. Other common names include larder beetle, hide or leather beetles, carpet beetles, and khapra beetles. There are over 1,100 species described.
Dermestids have ...
from
Southeast Asia
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and
Oceania
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.
It was originally described as a subgenus of ''
Attagenus
''Attagenus'' is a genus of beetles. This genus is found in tropical Africa, the Palearctic including Europe, the Near East, the Nearctic, North Africa and East Asia. There are nearly 200 species. The genus has existed for at least 99 million ...
'', 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''.
Species
''Ranolus'' contains the following seven species:
* ''
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
Dermestidae
Dermestidae genera
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