Tribe Vatesini Seevers 1958 (rove beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: C. H. Seevers. 1958. A revision of the Vatesini, a tribe of Neotropical Myrmecophiles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 8:181-202
Parent taxon: Tachyporinae according to S. Yamamoto 2025
See also Yamamoto 2021
Sister taxa: Abscondus, Acylophorus immotus, Tachinusini, Tachyporini, Tachyporoides
Subtaxa: Coproporus Procileoporus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence