Tribe Ctenistini Blanchard 1845
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Ctenistites
Full reference: E. Blanchard. 1845. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, leurs Moeurs, leurs Métamorphoses et leur classification, ou Traité Élémentaire d'Entomologie. Tome Premier 1-398
Parent taxon: Pselaphitae according to P. Bouchard et al. 2011
See also Newton and Chandler 1989
Sister taxa: Arhytodini, Hybocephalini, Pselaphini, Tmesiphorini, Tyrini
Subtaxa: Ctenistodes
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Helm collection (Eocene of Poland)