Subfamily Silphinae Latreille 1807 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1807. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum: Secundum Ordinem Naturalem in Familias Disposita, Iconibus Exemplisque Plurimis Explicata, Tomus Secundus 1-280

Parent taxon: Staphylinidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, King et al. 2015, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Webster 2016

Sister taxa: Miosilpha, Nicrophorinae, Heterosilpha

Subtaxa: Aclypea Dendroxena Necrodini Oiceoptoma Phosphuga Pliosilpha Silphini

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Greenland (2 collections), Japan (2), the Russian Federation (8), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (11: California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of Croatia (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado)

Total: 39 collections including 49 occurrences

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