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 S. Yamamoto 2025
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Chatzimanolis et al. 2010, Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016, Poinar and Brown 2004 and Yin 2020
Sister taxa: Cephenniitae, Cryptodiodon, Electroscydmaenus, Hetereuthia, Heuretus, Mastiginae, Mastigitae, Microlynx, Palaeothia, Pinitoides, Scydmaenitae, Scydmaenoides, Semnodioceras
Subtaxa: Ektatotricha Electroatopos Hapsomela
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections including 11 occurrences