Family Leiodidae Fleming 1821 (round fungus beetle)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Leiodidae
Alternative spellings: Leiodesidae, Liodidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Staphylinoidea according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Crowson 1981, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Perreau and Haelewaters 2021 and Yamamoto 2018
Sister taxa: Agyrtidae, Colonidae, Dasyceridae, Empelidae, Hydraenidae, Jacobsoniidae, Ptiliidae, Staphylinidae
Subtaxa: Agaricophagus Camiarinae Catopocerinae Cholevinae Cholevinus Leiodinae Leptininae Platypsyllinae
Type: Leiodes