Vernacular names

Primary references

• Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, xii + pp. 13–467 + [1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 124]

Additional references

• Asenjo, A., Irmler, U., Klimaszewski, J., Herman, L.H. & Chandler, D.S. 2013. A complete checklist with new records and geographical distribution of the rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of Brazil. Insecta mundi 0277: 1–419. Full article (PDF).Reference page. 

• Asiain, J., Márquez, J. & Irmler, U. 2015. New national and state records of Neotropical Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3974(1): 76–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.1.5 Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

• Bachmann, A.O., Chani-Posse, M., Guala, M.E. & Newton, A.F. 2017. A catalog of the types of Staphylinidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires (MACN). Zootaxa 4223(1): 1–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4223.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Brunke, A.J.; Marshall, S.A. 2011: Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada. ZooKeys, 75: 29–68. ISSN: 1313-2970 (online) ISSN: 1313-2989 (print) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.75.767

• Blackwelder, R.E. 1952. The generic names of the beetle family Staphylinidae, with an essay on genotypy. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 200: i–iv, 1–483. hdl: 10088/30426 . BHL. Reference page. 

• Frank, J.H.; Ahn, K.-J. 2011: Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): a worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history. ZooKeys, 107: 1–98. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.107.1651 Reference page. 
• Grebennikov, V.V.; Newton, A.F. 2009: Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera). European journal of entomology, 106: 275–301.

• 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. Handle Reference page. 

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. II. Tachyporine group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 651–1066. Handle Reference page. 

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. III. Oxyteline group. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 1067–1806. Handle Reference page. 

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. IV. Staphylinine group (Part 1). Euaesthetinae, Leptotyphlinae, Megalopsidiinae, Oxyporinae, Pseudopsinae, Solieriinae, Steninae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 1807–2440. Handle Reference page. 

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. V. Staphylinine group (Part 2). Staphylininae: Diochini, Maorothiini, Othiini, Platyprosopini, Staphylinini (Amblyopinina, Anisolinina, Hyptiomina, Philonthina). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 2441–3020. Handle Reference page. 

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. VI. Staphylinine group (Part 3). Staphylininae: Staphylinini (Quediina, Staphylinina, Tanygnathinina, Xanthopygina), Xantholinini. Staphylinidae incertae sedis. Fossils, Protactinae†. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 3021–3840. Handle Reference page. 

• Herman, L.H. 2001. Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1758 to the end of the second millennium. VII. Bibliography and Index. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 3841–4218. Handle Reference page. 
• Junk, W.; Schenkling, S. 1910: Coleopterorum Catalogus, Part 19 : Staphylinidae I.

• Klimaszewski, J., Newton, A.F., jr. & Thayer, M.K. 1996. A review of the New Zealand rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). New Zealand journal of zoology 23(2): 143–160. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1996.9518074 . Reference page. 
• Latreille, P.A. 1802: Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Tome 3. F. Dufart, Paris. Internet Archive BHL
• Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. et al. 2010: Catalog of the types of some families of Coleoptera (Insecta) deposited at Coleção de Entomologia Pe. J. S. Moure, Curitiba, Brazil. Zootaxa, 2535: 1–34. Preview
• Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2 ed. I. Lobl, & A. Smetana, Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 2004
  ISBN 87-88757-74-9, p.237

• Webster, R.P., Klimaszewski, J., Bourdon, C., Sweeney, J.D., Hughes, C.C. & Labrecque, M. 2016. Further contributions to the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) fauna of New Brunswick and Canada including descriptions of 27 new species. ZooKeys 573: 85–216. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.573.7016 .Reference page. 

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Scydmaenidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Staphylinidae in SYNOPSIS OF THE DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA OF THE WORLD
• Tree of Life Web Project. 1995. Staphylinidae Latreille 1802. Rove beetles. Version 01 January 1995 (temporary) in The Tree of Life Web Project
• Atlas of rove beatles (Staphylinidae) of Russia and adjacent countries [beetles]