Scotocryptini

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Leiodidae
Subfamilia: Leiodinae
Tribus: Scotocryptini
Genera (10): Aglyptinus – Creagrophorus – Cyrtusiola – Parabystus – Popeus – Pseudocyrtusiola – Scotocryptodes – Scotocryptus – Synaristus – Termitoglobus

Name

Scotocryptini Reitter, 1884
References

Newton, A.F., jr. 1998: Phylogenetic problems, current classification and generic catalog of world Leiodidae (including Cholevidae). Pp. 41-178 in Giachino, P.M.; Peck, S.B. (eds.) Phylogeny and evolution of subterranean and endogean Cholevidae (=Leiodidae Cholevinae) Proceedings of XX I.C.E. Firenze, 1996. Atti Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. Reference page.
Roubik, D.W.; Wheeler, Q.D. 1982: Flightless beetles and stingless bees: phoresy of scotocryptine beetles (Leiodidae) on their meliponine hosts (Apidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 55(1): 125-135. JSTOR Reference page.