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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Staphylininae
Tribus: Staphylinini
Subtribus: Staphylinina
Genus: Ocypus
Subgenera: Angulephallus – Matidus – Pseudocypus

Names excluded from Ocypus: Aulacocypus – Goerius – Protocypus

Species overview: O. abaris – O. aeneocephalus – O. aenescens – O. aereus – O. aethiops – O. affinis – O. albanicus – O. alfierii – O. almensis – O. alpestris – O. alpicola – O. alticulminis – O. altissimus – O. ambiguus – O. anguliculminis – O. angustulus – O. anophthalmicus – O. apterus – O. atavides – O. aurosericans – O. ballio – O. baronii – O. bernhaueri – O. bhutanicus – O. bicoloris – O. biharicus – O. bion – O. brenskei – O. brevipennis – O. brunnipes – O. bureschi – O. caelestis – O. caeruleoides – O. caerulescensides – O. caeruleus – O. calamis – O. canariensis – O. cebuensis – O. cerceticus – O. chevrolatii – O. corcyranus – O. coreanus – O. curtipennis – O. cyaneopubens – O. cyclopus – O. densissimus – O. denticulminis – O. deuvei – O. digiticulminis – O. dolon – O. dryas – O. duplicatus – O. elpenor – O. excisus – O. festae – O. forficularius – O. fortunatarum – O. frater – O. fulvipennis – O. fuscatus – O. fusciculminis – O. fuscoaeneus – O. glabrio – O. gorgias – O. graeseri – O. harbinensis – O. hecato – O. heinzi – O. helleni – O. himalaycus – O. hissaricus – O. hochhuthi – O. hyas – O. impennis – O. imurai – O. inexpectatus – O. inexspectatus – O. italicus – O. itys – O. japonicus – O. jeannei – O. jelineki – O. khnzoriani – O. kuntzeni – O. laelaps – O. latens – O. lewisius – O. liaoningensis – O. longimanus – O. macrocephalus – O. manceps – O. mateui – O. matilei – O. megalocephalus – O. menander – O. milleri – O. mimas – O. morosus – O. murgulensis – O. mus – O. nabis – O. nabozhenkoi – O. neobrevicornis – O. neocles – O. nepalicus – O. nigriculminis – O. nigroaeneus – O. nigror – O. nitens – O. nubigena – O. nudicollis – O. obscuroaeneus – O. olens – O. ophthalmicus – O. orientis – O. ormayi – O. orodes – O. ottomanus – O. palamedes – O. pammenes – O. pecoudi – O. pedemontanus – O. pelias – O. picipennis – O. pileaticulminis – O. ponomarevorum – O. ponticus – O. primoriensis – O. provincialis – O. puer – O. puetzi – O. pullus – O. quadraticeps – O. queinneci – O. quiris – O. recticulminis – O. reimoseri – O. rhaeticus – O. rhinton – O. rhoetus – O. sadales – O. saevus – O. sarpedon – O. scaevola – O. semenowi – O. sericeicollis – O. sericeomicans – O. serotinus – O. shiretokensis – O. sikkimensides – O. simulator – O. solarii – O. stastnyi – O. subaenescens – O. svozili – O. sylvaticus – O. syriacus – O. tenebricosus – O. testaceipes – O. teuthras – O. thericles – O. torvus – O. trapezensis – O. turcicus – O. umbricola – O. umbro – O. viaticus – O. vindex – O. xerxes – O. zetes – O. zeuxis – O. zopyrus

Invalid species names: O. aglaosemanticus – O. auroguttatus – O. bimaculatus – O. fraternus – O. kobensis – O. liui – O. marocanus – O. miwai – O. pterosemanticus – O. quadrimaculatus – O. sikkimensis – O. weisei – O. wasmanni
Name

Ocypus Leach, 1819: 172

Type species: Staphylinus cyaneus Paykull, 1789, fixed by original designation.

Synonymy

Goerius Westwood, 1827: 58
Type species: Staphylinus olens O. Müller, 1764, fixed by monotypy.
Isopterum Gistel, 1856: 388
Type species: Staphylinus cyaneus Paykull, 1789, fixed by subsequent designation by Blackwelder, 1952: 2015.
Nudabemus Coiffait, 1982: 74
Type species: Nudabemus caerulescens Coiffait, 1982, fixed by original designation.
Xanthocypus J. Müller, 1925: 40
Type species: Ocypus weisei Harold, 1877.

Ocypus olens (O.Mueller, 1764)

Ocypus olens

References
Primary references

Leach, W.E. 1819: [new genera]. In: Samouelle G.: The entomologist’s useful compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British insects comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and the modern method of arranging the classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects from their affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology: a calendar of the times of appearance, and usual situations of near 3000 species of British insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. London: Thomas Boys, 496 pp. BHL [original description: p. 172]

Additional references

He, L. & Zhou, H-Z. 2017. Taxonomy of the subgenus Ocypus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) and three new species from China. Zootaxa 4312(2): 293–310. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.2.5. Reference page. [Key to species of the subgenus Ocypus s. str. from China: p. 295]
He, L. & Zhou, H-Z. 2017. Taxonomy of the subgenus Pseudocypus Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini) and eight new species from China. Zootaxa 4339(1): 1–77. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4339.1.1. Reference page.

Ocypus is a genus of rove beetles in the subfamily Staphylininae.
Selected species

Ocypus affinis Wollaston, 1864
Ocypus alfierii (Bernhauer, 1925)
Ocypus auroguttatus (Cameron, 1932)
Ocypus aurosericans (Fairmaire, 1891)
Ocypus baronii (Coiffait, 1982)
Ocypus cameroni Smetana & Davies, 2000
Ocypus curtipennis Motschulsky, 1849
Ocypus cyaneopubens (Reitter, 1913)
Ocypus festae (Müller G., 1925)
Ocypus miwai (Bernhauer, 1943)
Ocypus olens (O. Müller, 1764) - devil's coach-horse
Ocypus ophthalmicus (Scopoli, 1763)
Ocypus quadrimaculatus (Cameron, 1932)
Ocypus rhaeticus Eppelsheim, 1873
Ocypus rhoetus Smetana, 2007
Ocypus sikkimensis (Bernhauer, 1920)
Ocypus thericles Smetana, 2007
Ocypus umbro Smetana, 2007
Ocypus wasmanni (Bernhauer, 1920)
Ocypus weisei Harold, 1877
Ocypus zopyrus Smetana, 2007

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