Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

red + metallic blue/green rove - Dinothenarus saphyrinus Fungus beetle--detail - Anisotoma Pselaphine  - Decarthron - female Sexton Beetle - Nicrophorus carrion beetle - Nicrophorus defodiens Margined Carrion Beetle - Oiceoptoma noveboracense Sonora-1 - Scaphisoma Hydraena
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
change not yet implemented in the Guide: Silphidæ downgraded to subfamily of the Staphylinidæ(1)(2)
Numbers
one of the largest beetle lineages; see(3); 7 families, all represented in our area(4)(2)
Habitat
associated with all kinds of decaying matter and fungi; most Staphylinidæ are predatory
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Life
2.Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles
Cai C et al. 2022. R. Soc. Open Sci. 9: 211771.
3.Newton A.F., Thayer M.K. Catalog of higher taxa of Staphyliniformia and genera and subgenera of Staphylinoidea [online]
4.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.