Gymnusini
Sign in to saveGymnusini is a tribe of rove beetles in the subfamily Aleocharinae. It is a basal aleocharine group, and they inhabit riparian habitats. It was described in 1839.
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- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyStaphylinidae
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Gymnusini is a tribe of rove beetles in the subfamily Aleocharinae. It is a basal aleocharine group, and they inhabit riparian habitats. It was described in 1839.
The tribe was expanded by a revision in 2017 that synonymized the previously recognized tribe Deinopsini under Gymnusini, which now contains 8 genera: Adinopsis Cameron, 1919 Allodinopsis Ashe, 2002 †Cretodeinopsis Cai, Chenyang & Diying Huang, 2015 Deinopsis Matthews, 1838 †Electrogymnusa Wolf-Schwenninger, 2004 Gymnusa Gravenhorst, 1806 Metadeinopsis Klimaszewski, 1979 Stylogymnusa Hammond, 1975
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