BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
BILATERIA
(bilaterally symmetrical animals)
PROTOSTOMIA
(protostomes)
ECDYSOZOA
(skin shedders)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
PTERYGOTA
(winged insects)
Neoptera
(an infraclass of insects)
Endopterygota
(insects with wings developing internally)
COLEOPTERA
(beetles)
POLYPHAGA
(mainly terrestrial beetles)
Staphyliniformia
(burying beetles, carrion beetles, rove beetles etc.)
STAPHYLINOIDEA
Staphylinoidea
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

STAPHYLINOIDEA

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs
Family HYDRAENIDAE (small water beetles)       2
Family LEIODIDAE (round fungus beetles) 2      
Subfamily LEIODINAE (a subfamily of round fungus beetles) 2   5 1
Family SILPHIDAE (sexton beetles) 8 41 19 6
Family STAPHYLINIDAE (rove beetles) 26 57 61 24

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 3: Adephaga 2.

STAPHYLINOIDEA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 45 feeding and other relationships of STAPHYLINOIDEA

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