Synonymy

• Clidicinae Casey, 1897: 541 [original name]
  • Type genus: Clidicus Laporte de Castelnau, 1832.
• Clidicini Ganglbauer, 1899: 60 [Tribe redefined by Jałoszyński et al., 2018]
  • Type genus: Clidicus Laporte de Castelnau, 1832.

Primary references

• Casey, T.L. 1897. Coleopterological notices. VII. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 9: 286–684. [original description: p. 541]

• 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 2018(zly010): 1–30. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page.  [sensu nov. (restricted to Clidicus and †Palaeoleptochromus): p. 10]

Additional references

• O'Keefe, S.T. 2002: Revision of the Neotropical genus Leptochromus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae). Systematic entomology, 27: 211–234. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00179.x

• Jałoszyński, P. & Perkovsky, E.E. 2016. Diversity of Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Upper Eocene Rovno amber. Zootaxa 4157(1): 1–85. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4157.1.1 . Reference page. 

• 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.  [diagnosis, characteristics, distribution, remarks: p. 38]

• 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 2018(zly010): 1–30. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page.