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Tribe Lomechusini

Rove Beetle - Drusilla canaliculata long-legged inquiline? - Xenodusa cava Small, Orange, and Common - Apalonia seticornis Oxypodini? - Drusilla Ecitoxenidia alabamae Staphlinid - Ecitonidia wheeleri Staphlinid - Ecitonidia wheeleri Small staph - Pella
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Aleocharinae
Tribe Lomechusini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
several genera, incl. Tetradonia Wasmann, recently moved to Athetini(1)
Identification
habitus photos of all our spp. of Zyras group of genera in(2)
Works Cited
1.Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini–Lomechusini– Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta)
Elven H., Bachmann L., Gusarov V.I. 2012. Zoologica Scripta 41: 617–636.
2.Canadian species of the Zyras group of genera and review of the types from America north of Mexico (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae...
Klimaszewski J., Pelletier G., Maruyama M., Hlaváč P. 2005. Rev. Suisse Zool. 112: 703-733.