Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Alternative spelling: Paederidae
Full reference: J. Fleming. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 5:41-56
Parent taxon: Staphylinidae according to J. Jenkins Shaw et al. 2024
See also Bernhauer and Schubert 1912, Bogri et al. 2018, Bogri et al. 2020, Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: Miosilpha, Silphinae, Nicrophorinae, Heterosilpha
Subtaxa: Lathrobiini Lithoplanes Mesostaphylinus Paederini Pinophilini
Type: Paederus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (5: British Columbia, Ontario collections), Greenland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (2: Colorado)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of China (5), Germany (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of France (3), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (2), Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (7: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), China (2), Myanmar (3), Spain (1)
Total: 58 collections including 80 occurrences