Synonymy

• Micropeplida Leach, 1815: 90 [original name]
• Micropeplida Heer, 1839: 169 [family-group name proposed as new without reference to Micropeplida Leach, 1815]

Primary references

• Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology [pp. 57–172]. In: Brewster, D. (Ed). Brewster’s Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Volume IX [part I]. W. Blackwood, J. Waugh, etc., Edinburgh, 764 pp. BHL. Reference page.  [original description: p. 90]

Additional references

• Cai, C-Y. & Huang, D-Y. 2014. The oldest micropepline beetle from Cretaceous Burmese amber and its phylogenetic implications (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Naturwissenschaften 101(10): 813–817. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-014-1221-z Reference page. 
• Campbell, J.M. 1968: A revision of the New World Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with a rearrangement of the world species. Canadian entomologist, 100: 225–267. DOI: 10.4039/Ent100225-3
• Campbell, J.M. 1973: New species and records of New World Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Canadian entomologist, 105: 569–576. DOI: 10.4039/Ent105569-4
• Campbell, J.M. 1978: New species and records of New World Micropeplidae (Coleoptera). II. Canadian entomologist, 110: 1247–1258. DOI: 10.4039/Ent1101247-12

• Grebennikov, V.V. & Smetana, A. 2015. DNA barcoding and regional diversity of understudied Micropeplinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Southwest China: phylogenetic implications and a new Micropeplus from Mount Emei. Zootaxa 3919(3): 583–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.3.8 . Reference page. 
• Herman, L.H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the second millennium. I. Introduction, history, biographical sketches, and omaliine group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (265): 1–650.
• Löbl, I.; Burckhardt, D. 1988: Cerapeplus gen.n. and the classification of micropeplids (Coleoptera: Micropeplidae). Systematic entomology, 13: 57–66. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1988.tb00229.x
• I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2004 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2: Hydrophiloidea-Staphylinoidea.
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