Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Scydmaeninae according to Z. W. Yin et al. 2018
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Chatzimanolis et al. 2010, Jałoszyński and Kubisz 2016, Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016 and Peris et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Cephenniitae, Cryptodiodon, Electroscydmaenus, Hapsomelitae, Hetereuthia, Heuretus, Mastiginae, Mastigitae, Microlynx, Palaeothia, Pinitoides, Scydmaenoides, Semnodioceras
Subtaxa: Chevrolatiini Kachinus Scydmaenini Stenichnini
Type: Scydmaenus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), Italy (1)
• Oligocene of France (2)
• Eocene of Lithuania (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (3)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Myanmar (6), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 19 collections including 53 occurrences