Scydmaenini

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: Scydmaenitae
Tribus: Scydmaenini
Genera: Adrastia – Blefuscudia – Ceramphis – Eudesis – †Kuafu – Liliputella – Pseudoeudesis – Scydmaenus
Name

Scydmaenini Leach, 1815: 92

Type genus: Scydmaenus Latreille, 1802.

Synonymy

Scydmaenides Leach, 1815: 92 [original name]
Eumicrini Reitter, 1882: 192
Type genus: Eumicrus Laporte, 1833 [syn. of Scydmaenus Latreille, 1802].

References
Primary references

Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 92]

Additional references

Jałoszyński, P. 2016. Liliputella, a new genus of microscopic, wingless and blind Scydmaenini of the Bismarck Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4093(1): 135–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.9.Reference page. [a preliminary key to identification of genera of Scydmaenini: p. 139]
I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2004 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea-Staphylinoidea.
Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p. 224
Vit, S. 2006: Scydmaenini (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) of the Arabian Peninsula. Fauna of Arabia, 22: 435–448.