Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spellings: Micropeplida, Micropeplidae
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1815. Entomology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia 9:57-172
Parent taxon: Staphylinidae according to J. Jenkins Shaw et al. 2024
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai and Huang 2014, Cai et al. 2022, Crowson 1981, Herman 2001, Jiang et al. 2020 and Lawrence and Newton 1995
Sister taxa: Miosilpha, Silphinae, Heterosilpha, Nicrophorinae
Subtaxa: Arrhenopeplus Kalissus Micropeplus Protopeplus
Type: Micropeplus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), Greenland (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (8: Washington)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Miocene of United States (1: Alaska)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 23 collections including 33 occurrences