Synonymy

• Mastigoidae Fleming, 1821: 49 [original name; incorrect original spelling]
• Mastigini — Reitter, 1882: 142 [Tribe was redefined by Jałoszyński et al., 2018]
  • Type genus: Mastigus Latreille, 1802.

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 2018(zly010): 1–30. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page.  [sensu nov.]

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. 228

• 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. 71]