Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota > Order Coleoptera > Suborder Polyphaga > Infraorder Staphyliniformia > Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Staphylinidae Latreille, 1804

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Clavigeridae*		subjective synonym
*Micropeplidae*		subjective synonym
*Pselaphidae*		subjective synonym
*Scaphidiidae*		subjective synonym

Children

Aleocharinae
Dasycerinae
Euaesthetinae
Habrocerinae
Leptotyphlinae
Micropeplinae
Olisthaerinae
Omaliinae
Osoriinae
Oxyporinae
Oxytelinae
Paederinae
Phloeocharinae
Piestinae
Proteininae
Pselaphinae
Pseudopsinae
Scaphidiinae
Staphylininae
Steninae
Tachyporinae
Trichophyinae
Trigonurinae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kortschildkevers

English: rove beetles; rove beetles sources: Charles Hussey;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: kortvinger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: kortvinger; kortvinger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: kortvenger; kortvenger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: kortvingar

Literature

basis of record	Legakis, A. (2001). Insecta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323-324
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Frank, H.; Ahn, K.-J. (2011). Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history. ZooKeys. 107: 1-98.