Staphylininae

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Staphylininae
Temporal range: Lutetian–Recent
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Ontholestes cingulatus. [1] [2]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Staphyliniformia
Family: Staphylinidae
Subfamily: Staphylininae
Latreille, 1802
Diversity
6 tribes
Synonyms

Staphylinae ( lapsus )

Platydracus cinnamopterus in SW Pennsylvania Platydracus cinnamopterus.jpg
Platydracus cinnamopterus in SW Pennsylvania

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.

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Systematics

Cafius algophilus (Staphylinini) Cafius algophilus.jpg
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. 1 2 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. Żyła, Dagmara; Solodovnikov, Alexey (2019-08-13). "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.
  5. 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.