Ocypus olens (Müller, O.F., 1764)
(Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)

Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesOcypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)
GenusOcypus (a genus of rove beetles)
SubfamilySTAPHYLININAE (a subfamily of beetles)
FamilySTAPHYLINIDAE (rove beetles)
SuperfamilySTAPHYLINOIDEA (rove, sexton and featherwing beetles)
Series Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds) 2006 A Coleopterist’s handbook The Amateur Entomolgist, 11, Fourth Edition edition, 439pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society

Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 4 images of Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)
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