Philotermes

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

Familia:Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Philotermitini
Genus: Philotermes
Species (7): P. cubitopilis – P. emersoni – P. fuchsii – P. howardi – P. pensylvanicus – P. pilosus – P. werneri
Name

Philotermes Kraatz, 1857: 13

Type species: Philotermes pilosus Kraatz, 1857, designated in Fenyes, 1918: 24.

References
Primary references

Kraatz, G. 1857. Genera Aleocharinorum illustrata. Linnaea Entomologica 11: 1–43. BHL [original description: p. 13]

Philotermes is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are about seven described species in Philotermes.[1][2][3]
Species

These seven species belong to the genus Philotermes:

Philotermes cubitopilis Seevers, 1957
Philotermes emersoni Seevers, 1938
Philotermes fuchsii Kraatz, 1857
Philotermes laxicornis Sharp, 1883
Philotermes pennsylvanicus Kraatz, 1857
Philotermes pilosus Kraatz, 1857
Philotermes werneri Seevers, 1957

References

"Philotermes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Philotermes". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Philotermes genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

Seevers, Charles H. (1978). "A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Fieldiana, Zoology. 71. ISSN 0015-0754.
Frank, J. H.; Ahn, K. J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". ZooKeys (107): 1–98. doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.