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Tribe Athetini

tiny rove - Meronera venustula Dinaraea angustula? - Dinaraea angustula Staphylinidae - Stethusa Rove Beetle - Tarphiota fucicola Rove Beetle - Meronera venustula Meronera sp.? - Meronera venustula Meronera venustula - male Atheta alesi
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 Athetini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ecitocharini Seevers 1965(1)
members of the Geostibini used to be treated as a subtribe of Athetini(2)
Explanation of Names
Athetini Casey 1910
paraphyletic assemblage with regard to Lomechusini and Ecitocharini(1)
Numbers
if treated in the old sense, ~650 spp. in 64 genera in our area(3), >4,000 spp. in ~250 genera total(4)
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny of the tribe Athetini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data
Elven H., Bachmann L., Gusarov V.I. 2010. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57: 84–100.
2.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.
3.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.
4.Catalogue of Life