Vatesini

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: Tachyporinae
Tribus: Vatesini
Genera: Vatesus
Name

Vatesini Seevers, 1958: 183 [nom. nov.]

Type genus: Vatesus Sharp, 1876.

Synonymy

Xenocephalini Wasmann, 1887: 411
Type genus: Xenocephalus Wasmann, 1887 [preoccupied genus name, not Xenocephalus Kaup, 1858 (Pisces); replaced by Wasmannotherium Bernhauer, 1921; syn. of Vatesus Sharp, 1876]

References
Primary references

Seevers C.H. 1958. A revision of the Vatesini, a tribe of Neotropical myrmecophiles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 8: 181–202. [nom. nov.: p. 183]