Microsilphinae

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: Crustacea
Superclassis: Allotriocarida
Classis: 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: Microsilphinae
Genera (1): Microsilpha
Name

Microsilphinae Crowson, 1950: 279

Type genus: Microsilpha Broun, 1886.

Synonymy

Micragyrtini Blackwelder, 1944: 84 [unavailable familygroup name, proposed after 1930 without description or bibliographic reference to such a description (Art. 13.1); originally proposed as a tribe of Leiodidae]
Type genus: Micragyrtes Champion, 1918 [syn. of Microsilpha Broun, 1886].
Micragyrtini Jeannel, 1962b: 484 [originally proposed as a tribe of Silphidae]
Type genus: Micragyrtes Champion, 1918 [syn. of Microsilpha Broun, 1886]

References
Primary references

Crowson, R.A. 1950. The classification of the families of British Coleoptera. Entomologist's monthly magazine 86: 149–171, 274–288, 327–344. [original description: p. 279]

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.