Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Oxytelinae according to J. Jenkins Shaw et al. 2024
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2016, Engel and Chatzimanolis 2009, Erichson 1839, Herman 2001, Ryvkin 1990 and Yue et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Blediini, Coprophilini, Deleasterini, Euphaniini, Megalymma, Mesoxytelus, Morda, Piestini, Syntomiini, Thinobiini, Turgaphloeus
Subtaxa: Anotylus Carpelimus Dolichoxenus Oxytelus Platystethus
Type: Oxytelus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Greenland (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (26), United States (13: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Germany (1), United States (2: California)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1)
• Eocene of United States (3: Colorado)
Total: 54 collections including 91 occurrences