Ranolus

Ranolus is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae from Southeast Asia and Oceania.^[1] It was originally described as a subgenus of Attagenus, containing only the species Ranolus cavernicola. It was later found to be a separate genus, and was placed in its own tribe, Ranolini, along with Orphilodes. A second species, Ranolus tenebricola, was described by Jiří Háva in 2014.^[2] Orphilodes was later synonymized with Ranolus.^[3]

Ranolus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Dermestidae
Tribe:	Ranolini Háva, 2014
Genus:	Ranolus (Blair, 1929)
Type species
Ranolus cavernicola (Blair, 1929)
Synonyms
Orphilodes Lawrence & Slipinski, 2005

Species

Ranolus contains the following seven species:^[1]

• Ranolus australis (Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005) — Australia
• Ranolus caledonicus Háva, 2017 — New Caledonia
• Ranolus cavernicola (Blair, 1929) — Malaysia
• Ranolus malleecola (Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005) — Australia
• Ranolus minor (Lawrence & Ślipiński, 2005) — Australia
• Ranolus papuanus (Háva, 2015) — Papua New Guinea
• Ranolus tenebricola Háva, 2014 — Thailand