Staphylininae

Staphylininae are a subfamily of rove beetles (family Staphylinidae). They contain the typical rove beetles with their long but fairly robust blunt-headed and -tipped bodies and short elytra, as well as some more unusually-shaped lineages.

Staphylininae
Temporal range:
Ontholestes cingulatus.[1][2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Subfamily: Staphylininae
Latreille, 1802
Diversity
6 tribes
Synonyms

Staphylinae (lapsus)

Platydracus cinnamopterus in SW Pennsylvania

Systematics
Cafius algophilus (Staphylinini)

As it seems, the Staphylininae are part of a large clade together with the subfamilies Euaesthetinae, Leptotyphlinae, Megalopsidiinae, Oxyporinae, Paederinae, Pseudopsinae, Scydmaeninae, Solieriinae, Steninae, and the extinct Protactinae which are only known from fossils.

The numerous Staphylininae genera are divided into six tribes, listed below along with some notable genera. However, a scientific study in 2020 proposed moving all tribes except Staphylinini to other subfamilies and raising several of Staphylinini's subtribes to tribal level.[3] This would result in a new total of twelve tribes: Acylophorini, Afroquediini, Amblyopinini, Antimerini, †Baltognathini, Cyrtoquediini, Erichsoniini, Hyptiomini, Indoquediini, Quediini, Staphylinini and Tanygnathinini.[3]

References
  1. Cirrus Digital: Gold and Brown Rove Beetle
  2. Bugguide.net Subfamily Staphylininae - Large Rove Beetles
  3. Żyła, Dagmara; Solodovnikov, Alexey (2020). "Multilocus phylogeny defines a new classification of Staphylininae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), a rove beetle group with high lineage diversity". Systematic Entomology. 45 (1): 114–127. doi:10.1111/syen.12382. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 202029355.
  4. Chatzimanolis, S.; Engel, M. S. (2011). "A new species of Diochus from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Diochini)" (PDF). ZooKeys (138): 65–73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.138.1896. PMC 3208521. PMID 22144854.


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