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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Anthophagini

Staphylinid - Lesteva pallipes Beetle with untucked shirt - Acidota subcarinata Amphichroum maculatum? - Amphichroum Staphylinid of some sort? - Pelecomalium Small Rove Beetles - Pelecomalium - male - female small beetle? - Acidota subcarinata Staphylinidae - Microedus fenderi Anthophagini found dead on snowpack
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 Omaliinae (Ocellate Rove Beetles)
Tribe Anthophagini
Numbers
27 genera in our area; ca. 40 worldwide(1)
Range
Holarctic and Oriental(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.