Oxyporus rufus (Linnaeus, 1758)
(a rove beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Oxyporus rufus (a rove beetle)
Genus	Oxyporus (Zoo.) (a genus of rove beetles)
Subfamily	OXYPORINAE (a subfamily of beetles)
Family	STAPHYLINIDAE (rove beetles)
Superfamily	STAPHYLINOIDEA (rove, sexton and featherwing beetles)
Series	Staphyliniformia (burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Oxyporus rufus is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Records of Oxyporus rufus (a rove beetle) :
1: Oxyporus rufus (a rove beetle)
2 Oct 1997	OSGR: SU67	51° 30’ N, 1° 0’ W	Vice County: Berks (VC 22)	England
within gills of Inocybe maculata

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Anderson, R.	2001	Fungi and Beetles - diversity within diversity	Field Mycology Vol 2 (3): 82-87.

Oxyporus rufus (a rove beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

STAPHYLINIDAE
(rove beetles)

STAPHYLINOIDEA
(rove, sexton and featherwing beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Oxyporus rufus (a rove beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Oxyporus rufus (a rove beetle)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Oxyporus rufus is also a member of:

Identification Works

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