Mastigitae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Mastigitae
Tribus: †Baltostigini – Clidicini – Leptochromini – Leptomastacini – Mastigini – Papusini

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Genera overview: Ablepton – †Aenictosoma – †Baltostigus – †Clidicostigus – Clidicus – †Euroleptochromus – Leptochromus – Leptomastax – Mastigus – †Palaeoleptochromus – Palaeostigus – Papusus – †Rovnoleptochromus – Stenomastigus – Taurablepton

Name

Mastigitae Fleming, 1821: 49

• Type genus: Mastigus Latreille, 1802

Synonymy

• Mastigoidae Fleming, 1821: 49 [original name; incorrect original spelling]
• Mastigitae Fleming, 1821; Grebennikov & Newton, 2009
• Mastiginae Fleming, 1821; Newton & Franz, 1998
• Mastigini sensu Reitter, 1882: 142
  • Type genus: Mastigus Latreille, 1802.

References

Primary references

• Fleming, J. 1821. Insecta. Supplement to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume Fifth [Part 1]. 584 pp. A. Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 41–56, pl. 85. Archive Reference page.  [original name: p. 49]
• Jałoszyński, P., Brunke, A.J., Yamamoto, S. & Takahashi, Y. 2018. Evolution of Mastigitae: Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils crucial for reclassification of extant tribes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(3): 623–652. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page.  [reclassification]

Additional references

• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2004 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea-Staphylinoidea.
  Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p. 227
• Jałoszyński, P. 2018. World genera of Mastigitae: review of morphological structures and new ecological data (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4453(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4453.1.1 Reference page.