Extinct and extant rove beetles meet in the matrix: Early Cretaceous fossils shed light on the evolution of a hyperdiverse insect lineage (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae)

Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera)

(2014) Vasily V. GREBENNIKOV et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Leehermania prorova, the Earliest Staphyliniform Beetle, from the Late Triassic of Virginia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

(2012) Stylianos Chatzimanolis et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Description of Euroleptochromus gen.n. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from Baltic amber, with discussion of biogeography and mouthpart evolution within Clidicini

(2012) PAWEŁ JAŁOSZYŃSKI   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

A new genus of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous: the first fossil rove beetles from the Southern Hemisphere

(2012) ANDREA SCHOMANN et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Rove beetle subtribes Quediina, Amblyopinina and Tanygnathinina: systematic changes affecting Central European fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylinini)

(2012) Alexey Solodovnikov   ZooKeys

Molecular phylogeny of the Athetini-Lomechusini-Ecitocharini clade of aleocharine rove beetles (Insecta)

(2012) Hallvard Elven et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Prosolierius, a new mid-Cretaceous genus of Solieriinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) with three new species from Burmese amber

(2011) Margaret K. Thayer et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

A new species of Hesterniasca (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) from the Early Cretaceous of China with discussion of its systematic position

(2011) Chenyang Cai et al.   INSECT SYSTEMATICS & EVOLUTION

The oldest fossil species of the rove beetle subfamily Oxyporinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Early Cretaceous (Yixian Formation, China) and its phylogenetic significance

(2011) Yanli Yue et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

First beetle elytra, abdomen (Coleoptera) and a mine trace from Lunz (Carnian, Late Triassic, Lunz-am-See, Austria) and their taphonomical and evolutionary aspects

(2011) BARBARA MELLER et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Discovery of the Quedius antipodum Sharp larva from New Zealand: phylogenetic test of larval morphology for Staphylinini at the intratribal level (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

(2011) EWA PIETRYKOWSKA-TUDRUJ et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

A new species of Diochus from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Diochini)

(2011) Stylianos Chatzimanolis et al.   ZooKeys

Family-Group Names In Coleoptera (Insecta)

(2011) Patrice Bouchard et al.   ZooKeys

Revision and phylogenetic assessment of the rove beetle genus Pseudohesperus Hayashi, with broad reference to the subtribe Philonthina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylinini)

(2011) LIANG LI et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Testing the phylogenetic utility of morphological character systems, with a revision of Creophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

(2011) DAVE J. CLARKE   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Generic Revision of the Procirrina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Pinophilini)

(2010) Lee Herman   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Megolisthaerus chinensis gen. et sp.n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae incertae sedis): an enigmatic rove beetle lineage from the Early Cretaceous

(2010) Yanli Yue et al.   INSECT SYSTEMATICS & EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of the tribe Athetini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data

(2010) Hallvard Elven et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogeny of the mega-diverse rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Insecta, Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

(2010) Stylianos Chatzimanolis et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Antiquity and long-term morphological stasis in a group of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Description of the oldest Octavius species from Cretaceous Burmese amber and a review of the “Euaesthetine subgroup” fossil record

(2009) Dave J. Clarke et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

(2009) Stylianos Chatzimanolis et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Three new Mesozoic Staphylinids (Coleoptera) from Liaoning, China

(2009) Yanli Yue et al.   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Revised systematics and biogeography of ‘Quediina’ of sub-Saharan Africa: new phylogenetic insights into the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)

(2009) ALEXEY SOLODOVNIKOV et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments and molecular data

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY