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Osorius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subfamily:	Osoriinae
Tribe:	Osoriini
Genus:	Osorius Guérin-Méneville, 1829

Osorius latipes

Osorius is a genus of unmargined rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about nine described species in Osorius.

Species

• Osorius brevicornis Notman, 1920
• Osorius brevipennis Notman, 1925
• Osorius difficilis Notman, 1925
• Osorius latipes (Gravenhorst, 1806)
• Osorius parcus Sharp, 1887
• Osorius parviceps Notman, 1925
• Osorius planifrons LeConte, 1877
• Osorius politus LeConte, 1877
• Osorius variolatus Notman, 1925

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. Vol. 2nd Edition. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Arthur V. Evans; James N. Hogue (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Brunke, A.; Marshall, S. (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys (75): 29–68. Bibcode:2011ZooK...75...29B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. PMC 3088045. PMID 21594139.
• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency.
• Frank J.H.; Ahn K.J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". ZooKeys (107): 1–98. Bibcode:2011ZooK..107....1A. doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
• Herman, Lee H. (July 2001). "Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millenium. III. Oxyteline group". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (265): 1067–1806. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.265.1.3. ISSN 0003-0090.
• Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Chandler, D.; Savard, K.; Li, A. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys (22): 19–33. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...19M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177.
• Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Li, A.; Savard, K. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys (22): 5–17. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22....5M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86.
• Le Conte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Miscellaneous Collections. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.
• Mazur, Slawomir (2004). Lobl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
• Peck, Stewart B.; Michael C. Thomas (1998). "A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida" (Document). Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville.
• Poole, Robert W.; Gentili, Patricia, eds. (1996). "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera. Entomological Information Services: 41–820.
• White, Richard E. (1983). A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin.