Phylogeny and evolution of S taphyliniformia and S carabaeiformia: forest litter as a step** stone for diversification of nonphytophagous beetles

DD Mckenna, BD Farrell, MS Caterino… - Systematic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The beetle series S taphyliniformia exhibits extraordinary taxonomic, ecological and
morphological diversity. To gain further insight into staphyliniform relationships and …

Innovative Bayesian and parsimony phylogeny of dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) enhanced by ontology-based partitioning of morphological …

S Tarasov, F Genier - Plos one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Scarabaeine dung beetles are the dominant dung feeding group of insects and are widely
used as model organisms in conservation, ecology and developmental biology. Due to the …

A review of the fossil history of Staphylinoidea

S Chatzimanolis - Biology of Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) Life History …, 2018 - Springer
The superfamily Staphylinoidea includes the families Hydraenidae, Ptiliidae, Agyrtidae,
Leiodidae, Silphidae, and Staphylinidae and currently includes more than 400 described …

Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analyses – Triassic Leehermania as a case study (Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?)

M Fikáček, RG Beutel, C Cai, JF Lawrence… - Systematic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Triassic fossils are rare but crucial for understanding the early evolution of large insect
clades including beetles (Coleoptera). Their phylogenetic assignment is problematic …

Linking evolutionary mode to palaeoclimate change reveals rapid radiations of staphylinoid beetles in low-energy conditions

L Lü, CY Cai, X Zhang, AF Newton, MK Thayer… - Current …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Staphylinoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) is one of the most species-rich groups in
animals, but its huge diversity can hardly be explained by the popular hypothesis (co …

Multilocus phylogeny defines a new classification of Staphylininae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), a rove beetle group with high lineage diversity

D Żyła, A Solodovnikov - Systematic Entomology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first multilocus molecular phylogeny of a group corresponding to the former
subfamily Staphylininae. Results are corroborated by the morphological, biogeographical …

Early evolution of the hyperdiverse rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) and a revision of its higher classification

AJ Brunke, S Chatzimanolis, H Schillhammer… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) is a monophyletic lineage
of over 5500 relatively large and charismatic species, yet its higher classification remains …

Phylogeny of the hyper‐diverse rove beetle subtribe Philonthina with implications for classification of the tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

MR Chani‐Posse, AJ Brunke, S Chatzimanolis… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With 71 genera and over 2700 described species, Philonthina is the most speciose subtribe
of rove beetle tribe Staphylinini and forms a major component of the largest remaining …

Baltic amber impact on historical biogeography and palaeoclimate research: oriental rove beetle Dysanabatium found in the Eocene of Europe (Coleoptera …

A Bogri, A Solodovnikov, D Żyła - Papers in Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Baltic amber is a rich source of fossilized organisms and a valuable tool for evolutionary,
biogeographical and palaeoenvironmental research. Because it is found in several deposits …

New data, old story: molecular data illuminate the tribal relationships among rove beetles of the subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

E Tihelka, MK Thayer, AF Newton, C Cai - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
The megadiverse subfamily Staphylininae traditionally belonged to the best-defined rove
beetle taxa, but the advent of molecular phylogenetics in the last decade has brought …