Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Synonym: Lestevini Mulsant and Rey 1880
Parent taxon: Omaliinae according to A. V. Shavrin and S. Yamamoto 2020
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai and Huang 2013, Cong et al. 1996, Herman 2001, Shavrin and Yamamoto 2019 and Tikhomirova 1968
Sister taxa: Archodromus, Coryphiini, Daiodromus, Eophyllodrepa, Eusphalerini, Globoides, Mesodeliphrum, Morsum, Omaliini, Porrhodromus, Prodaia, Protostaphylinus, Pseudolesteua
Subtaxa: Acidota Anthobium Anthophagus Arpedium Artochia Eucnecosum Geodromicus Lesteva Microedus Olophrum Orobanus Pelecomalium Phlaeopterus Sinanthobium Unamis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (4: British Columbia, Ontario collections), Greenland (8), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (13), United States (37: Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Colorado)
• Jurassic of China (1)
Total: 75 collections including 178 occurrences