Microsilphinae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Microsilphinae
Genera (1): Microsilpha

Name

Microsilphinae Crowson, 1950: 279

• Type genus: Microsilpha Broun, 1886.

Synonymy

• Micragyrtini Blackwelder, 1944: 84 [unavailable familygroup name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1); originally proposed as a tribe of Leiodidae]
  • Type genus: Micragyrtes Champion, 1918 [syn. of Microsilpha Broun, 1886].
• Micragyrtini Jeannel, 1962b: 484 [originally proposed as a tribe of Silphidae]
  • Type genus: Micragyrtes Champion, 1918 [syn. of Microsilpha Broun, 1886]

References

Primary references

• Crowson, R.A. 1950. The classification of the families of British Coleoptera. Entomologist's monthly magazine 86: 149–171, 274–288, 327–344. [original description: p. 279]

Additional references

• Herman, L.H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. I. Introduction, history, biographical sketches, and omaliine group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (265): 1–650.