Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera)

Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera)

Ant-like stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) include more than 4,850 described species in about 90 genera maintained as a separate cosmopolitan family since 1815. Recent authors have hypothesised that Scydmaenidae might be rooted deep inside rove-beetles (Staphylinidae). To test this hypothesis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vasily V. GREBENNIKOV, Alfred F. NEWTON
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science 2009-05-01
Series:European Journal of Entomology
Subjects:
coleoptera
staphylinidae sensu latissimo
staphylinine group
scydmaenidae
taxonomy
phylogeny
classification
morphology
larvae
18s rdna
parsimony
bayesian
neighbour joining
Online Access:https://www.eje.cz/artkey/eje-200902-0018_Good-bye_Scydmaenidae_or_why_the_ant-like_stone_beetles_should_become_megadiverse_Staphylinidae_sensu_latissim.php

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