Mastigitae

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: Mastigitae
Tribus: †Baltostigini – Clidicini – Leptochromini – Leptomastacini – Mastigini – Papusini

Genera overview: Ablepton – †Aenictosoma – †Baltostigus – †Clidicostigus – Clidicus – †Euroleptochromus – Leptochromus – Leptomastax – Mastigus – †Palaeoleptochromus – Palaeostigus – Papusus – †Rovnoleptochromus – Stenomastigus – Taurablepton
Name

Mastigitae Fleming, 1821: 49

Type genus: Mastigus Latreille, 1802

Synonymy

Mastigoidae Fleming, 1821: 49 [original name; incorrect original spelling]
Mastigitae Fleming, 1821; Grebennikov & Newton, 2009
Mastiginae Fleming, 1821; Newton & Franz, 1998
Mastigini sensu Reitter, 1882: 142
Type genus: Mastigus Latreille, 1802.

References
Primary references

Fleming, J. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume Fifth [Part 1]. 584 pp. A. Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 41–56, pl. 85. Archive Reference page. [original name: p. 49]
Jałoszyński, P., Brunke, A.J., Yamamoto, S. & Takahashi, Y. 2018. Evolution of Mastigitae: Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils crucial for reclassification of extant tribes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 2018(zly010): 1–30. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page. [reclassification]

Additional references

I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2004 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea-Staphylinoidea.
Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p. 227
Jałoszyński, P. 2018. World genera of Mastigitae: review of morphological structures and new ecological data (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4453(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4453.1.1 Reference page.