Dasycerinae

Life-forms

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: Dasycerinae
Genera (1 + 3†): †Cedasyrus – Dasycerus – †Protodasycerus – †Vetudasycerus
Name

Dasycerinae Reitter, 1887: 8

Type genus: Dasycerus Brongniart, 1800

Synonymy

Dasycerini Reitter, 1887: 8 [original name; originally proposed as a new tribe of Latridiidae]

References
Primary references

Reitter, E. 1887. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der Europäischen Coleopteren. III. Enthaltend die Familien: Scaphididae, Lathridiidae und Dermestidae. II. Auflage. E. Reitter, Mödling, 75 pp. [original description: p. 8]

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.
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2004 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea-Staphylinoidea.
Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p. 272
Yin, Z-W., Lü, L., Yamamoto, S., Thayer, M.K., Newton, A.F. & Cai, C-Y. 2020. Dasycerine rove beetles: Cretaceous diversification, phylogeny and historical biogeography (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae). Cladistics 37(2): 185–210. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12430 Open access Reference page. [diagnosis, key to genera: p. 6]

Dasycerinae is a subfamily of rove beetles.[1] Dasycerinae currently only contains 1 extant genus and 3 extinct genera.[2]

Genera

There are currently 4 described genera in Dasycerinae:[2]

†Cedasyrus Yin & Cai, 2020
Dasycerus Brongniart, 1800
†Protodasycerus Yamamoto, 2016
†Vetudasycerus Cai, Thayer, Newton, Yin & Huang, 2018

(† = extinct)
Anatomy

They have antennae with 11 segments and trisegmented antennal clubs. The tarsi have three segments, and the elytra cover or nearly cover the entire abdomen.
Ecology

These beetles inhabit moist broadleaf forest litter.[3] Eastern species are wingless with small eyes; dissected females have only been found with a single egg. They are known to occur on fruiting fungi, but may not specifically feed on them.
References

Newton, A. F., Jr., M. K. Thayer, J. S. Ashe, and D. S. Chandler. 2001. 22. Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802. p. 272–418. In: R. H. Arnett, Jr., and M. C. Thomas (eds.). American beetles, Volume 1. CRC Press; Boca Raton, Florida. ix + 443 p.
Yin, Zi-Wei; Lü, Liang; Yamamoto, Shûhei; Thayer, Margaret K.; Newton, Alfred F.; Cai, Chen-Yang (2021). "Dasycerine rove beetles: Cretaceous diversification, phylogeny and historical biogeography (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae)". Cladistics. 37 (2): 185–210. doi:10.1111/cla.12430. ISSN 1096-0031.

Ferro, M. L., M. L. Gimmel, K. E. Harms, and C. E. Carlton. 2012a. Comparison of the Coleoptera communities in leaf litter and rotten wood in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Insecta Mundi 259: 1–58. [1]

Further reading

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. [2]
Löbl, I., and F. G. Calame. 1996. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Dasycerinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Journal of Natural History 30: 247–291.
Wheeler, Q. D., and J. V. McHugh. 1994. A new southern Appalachian species, Dasycerus bicolor (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Dasycerinae), from declining endemic fir forests. The Coleopterists Bulletin 48: 265–271.