A new genus of Staphylinina and a review of major lineages (Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini)

Despite their familiarity to most naturalists, the large rove beetles of the subtribe Staphylinina are poorly understood systematically and have never been the subject of a focused phylogenetic analysis. Within a total evidence analytical framework, an unusual Staphylinina from China was demonstrated to be the sister group of Ontholestes and was described as Lesonthotes vulneratus Smetana and Brunke, gen. et sp. nov. Based on these results,...