Sceptobius

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Aleocharinae
Tribus: Sceptobiini
Genus: Sceptobius
Species: S. dispar – S. lativentris – S. schmitti
Name

Sceptobius Sharp, 1883: 211

Type species: Sceptobius dispar Sharp, 1883, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Apteronina Wasmann, 1901: 146
Type species: Apteronina schmitti Wasmann, 1901, fixed by monotypy.
Symbiochara Fenyes, 1909: 325
Type species: Symbiochara lativentris Fenyes, 1909, fixed by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Sharp, D. 1883. Fam. Staphylinidae (in part) [pp. 145–312, pls. 5–7]. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta, Coleoptera. Vol. 1(2). Taylor and Francis, London. xv + 824 pp., 19 pls. BHL [original description: p. 211]

Sceptobius is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least three described species in Sceptobius.[1][2][3]
Species

These three species belong to the genus Sceptobius:

Sceptobius dispar Sharp, 1883
Sceptobius lativentris (Fenyes, 1909)
Sceptobius schmitti (Wasmann, 1901)

References

"Sceptobius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Sceptobius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Sceptobius genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Danoff-Burg, James A. (1996). "An Ethogram of the Ant-Guest Beetle Tribe Sceptobiini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae; Formicidae)". Sociobiology. 27 (3): 287–328. ISSN 0361-6525.
Danoff-Burg, James A. (1994). "Evolving under myrmecophily: a cladistic revision of the symphilic beetle tribe Sceptobiini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)". Systematic Entomology. 19 (1): 25–45. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1994.tb00577.x. S2CID 85334511.
Seevers, Charles H. (1978). "A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)". Fieldiana, Zoology. 71. ISSN 0015-0754.
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. PMC 3392188. PMID 22792029.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2015). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-29685-5.