Scydosella

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: Ptiliidae
Subfamilia: Ptiliinae
Tribus: Nanosellini
Genus: Scydosella
Species (1): S. musawasensis
Name

Scydosella W.E. Hall, 1999

Type species: Scydosella musawasensis W.E. Hall, 1999, by original designation.

Primary references

Hall, W.E. 1999: Generic revision of the tribe Nanosellini (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Ptiliinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 125(1-2): 39–126. JSTOR Reference page.
Polilov, A. 2015. How small is the smallest? New record and remeasuring of Scydosella musawasensis Hall, 1999 (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae), the smallest known free-living insect. Zookeys 526: 61–64. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.526.6531 Full article Reference page.