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Devil's Coach Horse Beetle
Plate 1 of 6. (c) Corinna Herr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Corinna Herr · via iNaturalist

Devil's Coach Horse Beetle

Ocypus olens

The Devil's coach-horse beetle (Ocypus olens) is a species of beetle belonging to the large family of the rove beetles (Staphylinidae). It was originally included in the genus Staphylinus in 1764, and some authors and biologists still use this classification.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53869.