Metopsia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Proteininae
Tribus: Proteinini
Genus: Metopsia
Species: M. ampliata – M. assingi – M. canariensis – M. cimicoides – M. clypeata – M. elytrata – M. feloi – M. gomerensis – M. neglecta – M. palmensis – M. similis – M. tenoensis
Name

Metopsia Wollaston, 1854: 616

Type species: Metopsia ampliata Wollaston, 1854, fixed by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Wollaston T.V. 1854. Insecta Maderensia; being an account of the insects of the islands of the Madeiran group. London: J. van Voorst, xlii + 634 pp, 13 pls. [original description: p. 616]

Additional references

Zerche 1998: A phylogenetic-systematic revision of the Western Palaearctic genus Metopsia Wollaston, 1854 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Proteininae). Beiträge zur entomologie, 48(1): 3–101.