Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Mastigoidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Scydmaenidae according to A. F. Newton and H. Franz 1998
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai and Huang 2016, Chen and Yin 2023, Jałoszyński 2012, Jałoszyński 2016, Jałoszyński et al. 2018, Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016, Kirejtshuk et al. 2015, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Yin and Cai 2017, Yin et al. 2017, Yin et al. 2018 and Yin et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Cephenniitae, Cryptodiodon, Electroscydmaenus, Hapsomelitae, Hetereuthia, Heuretus, Mastigitae, Microlynx, Palaeothia, Pinitoides, Scydmaenitae, Scydmaenoides, Semnodioceras
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mastiginae in the database