Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Aleocharidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Staphylinidae according to S. Yamamoto and M. Maruyama 2017
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai and Huang 2015, Cai et al. 2017, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Pasnik and Kubisz 2002, Semenov et al. 2001, Werner 1969, Yamamoto et al. 2016 and Yamamoto and Maruyama 2017
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aleocharini Athetini Bolitocharini Gymnusini Homalotini Hygronomini Hypocyphtini Lomechusini Mesoporini Oxypodini Trichopseniini
Type: Aleochara
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: British Columbia, Ontario collections), Greenland (5), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (29: California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Mexico (3)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3)
Total: 78 collections including 100 occurrences