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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Staphyliniformia » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Spiny-legged Rove Beetles (Oxytelinae) » Blediini

Tribe Blediini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Works Cited
Rove Beetle - Bledius Rove Beetle - Bledius Rove Beetle - Bledius Bledius Small Rove Beetle - Bledius Staphylinidae - Bledius Bledius Bledius found under beach wrack - Bledius
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea (Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles)
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Oxytelinae (Spiny-legged Rove Beetles)
Tribe Blediini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
classification per (1) (formerly placed in the Thinobiini)
Numbers
~90 spp. in a single genus in our area(2)
Works Cited
1.Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the genera in the Carpelimus group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)
Makranczy G. 2006. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 98: 29-120.
2.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.
Contributed by v belov on 18 November, 2010 - 5:01pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 May, 2019 - 6:43pm

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