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Tribe Oxypodini

Rove Beetle - Gennadota Tiny little Rove Beetles - Ilyobates Aleocharin? - Oxypoda  Coleoptera - Oxypoda rove beetle - Oxypoda Rove Beetle Rove beetle on mountain maple flowers - Oxypoda Very small staphylinid
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 Oxypodini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
circumscription recently revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Oxypodini Thomson 1859
Numbers
~1,900 spp. in ~180 genera total(2)
Works Cited
1.Molecular phylogeny of the beetle tribe Oxypodini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Osswald J., Bachmann L., Gusarov V.I. 2013. Systematic Entomology DOI: 10.1111/syen.12011.
2.Catalogue of Life