Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Hapsomelinae
Full reference: G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2004. A new subfamily of Cretaceous antlike stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae: Hapsomelinae) with an extra leg segment. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106:789-796
Parent taxon: Scydmaeninae according to Z. W. Yin 2020
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Chatzimanolis et al. 2010, Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016 and Poinar and Brown 2004
Sister taxa: Cephenniitae, Cryptodiodon, Electroscydmaenus, Hetereuthia, Heuretus, Mastiginae, Mastigitae, Microlynx, Palaeothia, Pinitoides, Scydmaenitae, Scydmaenoides, Semnodioceras
Subtaxa: Ektatotricha Electroatopos Hapsomela
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections including 9 occurrences