Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera)
Ant-like stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae) include more than 4,850 described species in about 90 genera maintained as a separate cosmopolitan family since 1815.Recent authors have hypothesised that Scydmaenidae might be rooted deep inside rove-beetles (Staphylinidae).To test this hypothesis we analysed 206 parsimoniously informative larval a