Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Staphyliniformia for Costa Rica (Central America)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Infraorder Staphyliniformia Lameere, 1900
and region Costa Rica (Central America)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	611 11863 34633	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	608 11859 34631	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	579 11701 34157	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	379 9752 30015	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Beetles, Coleopterans	108 3263 9002	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Polyphaga Emery, 1886 Polyphags	102 3021 8293	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Staphyliniformia Lameere, 1900	9 564 1733	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Costa Rica
9 Families width 1733 Species and 15 Subspecies

Helophoridae (Leach, 1815)	Water scavenger beetles	1	Species	Taxom
Histeridae Gyllenhal, 1808	Clown beetle	269	Species	Taxom
Hydraenidae Mulsant, 1844	Cascade Beetles	22	Species	Taxom
Hydrophilidae Latreille, 1802	Silver Water Beetles	146	Species	Taxom
Leiodidae Fleming, 1821	Round fungus beetles	74	Species	Taxom
Ptiliidae Heer, 1843	Feather-wing beetles	16	Species	Taxom
Scydmaenidae (Leach, 1815)	Ant-like stone beetles	30	Species	Taxom
Silphidae Latreille, 1807	Burying And Carrion Beetles	2	Species	Taxom
Staphylinidae Lameere, 1900	Rove beetles	1173	Species	Taxom

Subnodes of Staphyliniformia with occurrences in Costa Rica

Superfamily	Histeroidea Gyllenhal, 1808	1 82 269	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Hydrophiloidea Latreille, 1802 Histerids, Hydriphiloids, Hydrophilids, Water Scavenger and Clown Beetles	2 45 147	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Staphylinoidea Latreille, 1802 Carrion Beetles, Fungus Beetles, Rove Beetles, Staphylinid Beetles	6 437 1317	Families Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Staphyliniformia at itis.gov