Publications supported wholly or partly by: NSF Grant No. 0118749 to Margaret K. Thayer and Alfred F. Newton, Field Museum of Natural History PEET: Monography, Phylogeny, and Historical Biogeography of Austral Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) (Last updated 24 March 2011) Check for updates: http://fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/StaphPEETpubs.pdf Disclaimer: Some online versions linked here are available only to journal or archive subscribers Journal Publications: 2003 Betz, O., M. K. Thayer, & A. F. Newton. Comparative morphology and evolutionary pathways of the mouthparts in spore feeding Staphylinoidea (Coleoptera). Acta Zoologica 84: 179-238. Abstract. Supplemental figures Leschen, R. A. B. & A. F. Newton. Larval description, adult feeding behavior, and phylogenetic placement of Megalopinus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 57: 469-493. Abstract. Peck, S. B. & M. K. Thayer. The cave-inhabiting rove beetles of the United States (Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; excluding Aleocharinae and Pselaphinae): Diversity and distributions. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65 (1): 3-8 + web appendix Thayer, M. K. Omaliinae of Mexico: New species, combinations, and records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 17: 311-358. 2004 Clarke, D. J. BOOK REVIEW: Scaphidiinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Fauna of New Zealand 48. Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 601-602. Peck, S. B. & M. K. Thayer. The cave-inhabiting rove beetles of the United States (Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; excluding Aleocharinae and Pselaphinae): diversity and distributions. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65(1): 3-8 + 12 pp. Appendix. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. Taxonomy and faunistics of some West Palearctic Quedius Stephens subgenus Raphirus Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 74: 221-243. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. & A. Kleeberg. Two new species and new records of Quedius from Nepal (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Beitraege zur Entomologie 54(2): 357-364. Thayer, M. K. & F. F. Purrington. Bledius beattyi Blackwelder (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), new to the United States and co-occurrences of some Bledius Leach and Dyschiriodes Jeannel (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae) species in south Florida., Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 439-442. Abstract. Thayer M. K., J. S. Ashe, & R. S. Hanley. Discovery of the remarkable larvae of Hoplandriini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97: 624-634. 2005 Newton, A. F., Jr., Gutierrez Chacon, C., and Chandler, D. S."Checklist of the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of Colombia." Biota Colombiana 6 (1): 1-72. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. Natalignathus gen. nov., and larvae of Atanygnathus: a missing phylogenetic link between subtribes Quediina and Tanygnathinina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini). Invertebrate Systematics 19: 75-98. Abstract. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. A new species of Quetarsius Smetana from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae): first record of the genus from the Asian mainland. Coleopterists Bulletin 58(4): 657-660. [2004] Abstract. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. New and little known species of Quedius from West Palaearctic (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Zootaxa 902: 1–13. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. & Grebennikov, K. Revision of Physetops Mannerheim, 1830, a monotypic genus with the polymorphic species P. tataricus (Pallas, 1773) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Zoologische Reihe 81(1): 67-80. Abstract.. Solodovnikov, A. Yu. & A. F. Newton. Phylogenetic placement of Arrowinini trib.n. within the subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), with revision of the relict South African genus Arrowinus and description of its larva. Systematic Entomology 30(3): 398-441. 2006 Solodovnikov, A. Yu. Adult and larval descriptions of a new termitophilous genus of the tribe Staphylinini with two species from South America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva [Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society] 77: 274- 283. Navarrete-Heredia, J.-L., C. Gómez-Rodríguez & A. F. Newton. Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Biologia Centrali-Americana: Current status of the names. Zootaxa 1251: 1-70. Newton, A. F. Habrocerus capillaricornis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) discovered in South Africa. African Entomology 14 (1): 193-194. 2007 Newton, A. F. & D. S. Chandler. World catalog of the species of Tyrini (Hlaváč & Chandler 2005): Additions, corrections, and a new name (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Folia Heyrovskyana (A) 14 (3): 113-116. [2006] Solodovnikov, A. Y. Larval chaetotaxy of Coleoptera (Insecta) as a tool for evolutionary research and systematics: less confusion, more clarity. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45 (2): 120-127. Abstract 2008 Asenjo, A. & D. J. Clarke. First record of Creophilus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Staphylinidae) from Peru. Coleopterists Bulletin 61 (4): 551. [2008] Chani-Posse de Maus, M. Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of the South American genus Endeius Coiffait & Sáiz (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 39 (4): 381- 406. Abstract Solodovnikov, A. Review of the Oriental genus Anchocerus with the description of new species and new combinations (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 39 (3): 287-301. Abstract 2009 Clarke, D. J. & S. Chatzimanolis. 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. Cretaceous Research 30 (6): 1426-1434. Abstract Clarke, D. J. & V. V. Grebennikov. Monophyly of Euaesthetinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): phylogenetic evidence from adults and larvae, review of austral genera, and new larval descriptions. Systematic Entomology 34 (2): 346-397. Abstract Grebennikov, V. V. & A. F. Newton. Good-bye Scydmaenidae, or why the ant-like stone beetles should become megadiverse Staphylinidae sensu latissimo (Coleoptera). European Journal of Entomology 106 (2): 275-301. Solodovnikov, A. & A. F. Newton. Australotarsius - A new genus of the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini from Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Zootaxa. 2033: 49-57. Solodovnikov, A. & A. Schomann. Revised systematics and biogeography of "Quediina" of Subsaharan Africa bring new insights about the phylogeny of the rove beetle tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Systematic Entomology 34 (3): 443-466. Abstract 2010 Solodovnikov, A. & A. F. Newton. 2010. Revision of the rove beetle genus Antimerus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), a puzzling endemic Australian lineage of the tribe Staphylinini. ZooKeys 67: 21-63. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.67.704 Abstract Weide, D., M. K. Thayer, A. F. Newton & O. Betz. 2010. Comparative morphology of the head of selected sporophagous and non-sporophagous Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): musculature and hypopharynx-prementum complex. Journal of Morphology 271 (8): 910-931. Abstract. DOI: 10.1002/jmor.10841; online supplementary material: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.10841/suppinfo Book(s) or other one-time publications: 2005 Thayer, M. K. 11. Staphylinoidea. [chapter] 11.7. Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802, pp. 296-344. In: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (Coleoptera eds.); Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (Insecta eds.), Coleoptera, Vol. I. Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York. Newton, A. F. 10. Hydrophiloidea. [chapter] 10.2. Sphaeritidae Shuckard, 1839, pp. 183-186. In: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (Coleoptera eds.); Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (Insecta eds.), Coleoptera, Vol. I. Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York. Newton, A. F. 10. Hydrophiloidea. [chapter] 10.3. Synteliidae Lewis, 1882, pp. 187-190. In: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (Coleoptera eds.); Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (Insecta eds.), Coleoptera, Vol. I. Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York. Newton, A. F. 11. Staphylinoidea. [chapter] 11.3. Agyrtidae Thomson, 1859, pp. 261-269. In: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (Coleoptera eds.); Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (Insecta eds.), Coleoptera, Vol. I. Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York. Newton, A. F. 11. Staphylinoidea. [chapter] 11.4. Leiodidae Fleming, 1821, pp. 269-280. In: Beutel, R.G. & Leschen, R.A.B. (Coleoptera eds.); Kristensen, N.P. & Beutel, R.G. (Insecta eds.), Coleoptera, Vol. I. Morphology and Systematics (Archostemata, Adephaga, Myxophaga, Polyphaga partim). Handbook of Zoology Vol. IV, Arthropoda: Insecta. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York. 2006 Newton, A. F. & S. B. Peck. Family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles, pp. 131-158. In: Peck, S. B. The beetles of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador: evolution, ecology and diversity (Insecta: Coleoptera). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. xiii + 313 pp. 2008 Chani Posse, M. R. & M. K. Thayer. Staphylinidae, pp. 471-494. In: Claps, L. E., G. Debandi & S.