Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Philonthidae
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Staphylinini according to J. L. Reyes‐Hernández et al. 2025
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Chani-Posse et al. 2018, Chatzimanolis and Engel 2013, Herman 2001, Tihelka et al. 2020 and Żyła and Solodovnikov 2020
Sister taxa: Acylophorina, Algonina, Anisolinina, Baltognathina, Cretoquedius, Cyrtoquediina, Durothorax, Quediina, Staphylinina, Xanthopygina
Subtaxa: Philonthus
Type: Philonthus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: British Columbia, Ontario collections), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (4: California, Colorado, Pennsylvania)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of United States (3: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 20 collections including 27 occurrences