Hapsomelitae

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: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: †Hapsomelitae
Genera (3): †Ektatotricha – †Electroatopos – †Hapsomela
Name

†Hapsomelitae Poinar & Brown, 2004: 790

Type genus: Hapsomela Poinar & Brown, 2004.

Synonymy

†Hapsomelinae Poinar & Brown, 2004: 790
†Hapsomelitae Poinar & Brown, 2004; Grebennikov & Newton, 2009: 288 (stat. n.)

References
Primary references

Poinar, G. & Brown, A.E. 2004. A new subfamily of Cretaceous antlike stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae: Hapsomelinae) with an extra leg segment. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106(4): 789–796. [original description: p. 790]

Additional references

Chatzimanolis, S.; Engel, M.S.; Newton, A.F.; Grimaldi, D.A. 2010: New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous research, 31: 77–84. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.009
Grebennikov, V.V.; Newton, A.F. 2009: Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera). European journal of entomology, 106: 275–301. PDF