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

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)
Records of Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail) :
1: Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)
8 Sep 2018 OSGR: SU30 50° 50’ N, 1° 30’ W Vice County: South Hants (VC 11) England
at MV light
Image 1: Adult - dorsal view - natural backgroundImage 2: Adult - lateral view - natural background
2: Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)
10 Oct 2008 OSGR: SU56 51° 30’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
Image 1: Adult - dorsal viewImage 2: Adult - dorso-lateral view

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
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:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Ocypus olens (Devil’s Coach-horse, Rove Beetle, Cocktail)
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