Among these were 4 Longicorns, 2 Caribidae, 7 Staphylinidae, 7 Curculionidae, 2. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
A new species and a new record of termitophilous Staphylinidae from Sierra Leone with a revision of the genus Termitusodes (Coleoptera). From Wordnik.com. [Western Guinean lowland forests] Reference
Your beetle is a Rove Beetle in the family Staphylinidae. From Wordnik.com. [What's That Bug?] Reference
Trogositidae, and Nitidulidae in the Lias; Staphylinidae in the English. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
(Staphylinidae), giving the idea that they can sting, has, probably, a similar use. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
A morning's search at these often produced me a score of species -- Staphylinidae, Nitidulidae, Onthophagi, and minute Carabidae, being the most abundant. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference
That they do not eat the leaves themselves I convinced myself; for I found near the tenanted chambers, deserted ones filled with the refuse particles of leaves that had been exhausted as manure for the fungus, and were now left, and served as food for larvae of Staphylinidae and other beetles. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
Staphylinidae, protective habit of, 210. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Longicorns, 2 Caribidae, 7 Staphylinidae, 7 Curculionidae, 2 Copridae, 4. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference
The most frequent finds are beetles that include click beetles Elateridae (15.8%), weevil Curculionidae (12.8%), jewel beetles Buprestidae (8.4%), dung beetles Scarabaeidae (3.9%), stag beetles Lucanidae (1.7%), ground beetles Carabidae (1.4%), water beetles Dascillidae (1.4%), longhorn beetles Cerambycidae (0.5%), and rove beetles Staphylinidae (0.26%). From Wordnik.com. [Messel Pit fossil site, Germany] Reference
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