Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: W. S. Macleay. 1825. Annulosa Javanica or an Attempt to Illustrate the Natural Affinities and Analogies of the Insects Collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M. D. F. L. & G. S. and Deposited by him in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company, Number 1 1-50
Parent taxon: Staphylinidae according to S. Yamamoto 2025
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2014, Cai et al. 2022, Herman 2001, Lawrence and Newton 1995 and Mnguni et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Miosilpha, Silphinae, Heterosilpha
Subtaxa: Afristenus Dianous Eocenostenus Festenus Stenus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), Greenland (5), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (20), United States (28: Colorado, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of France (3), Germany (2)
• Eocene of France (1), the Russian Federation (7), United States (4: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Botswana (1), France (1), Myanmar (5), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 84 collections including 120 occurrences