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Parent Taxon

• Staphylinidae

Sibling Taxa

• Achemia
• Achmonia
• Adamanthea
• Afrus
• Agerodes
• Agrodes
• Allolinus
• Atopolinus
• Caecolinus
• Crinolinus
• Ehomalolinus
• Erymus
• Eulissus
• Gauropterus
• Grevillia
• Guineella
• Guineodinella
• Gyrohypnus
• Hesperolinus
• Homalolinus
• Hypnogyra
• Lemiganus
• Lepitacnus
• Leptacinus
• Linohesperus
• Linosomus
• Liotesba
• Lissohypnus
• Lithocharodes
• Mahavana
• Megalinus
• Microlinus
• Milichilinus
• Mitomorphus
• Neohypnus
• Neoxantholinus
• Notolinopsis
• Nudobius
• Oculolabrus
• Otagonia
• Oxybleptes
• Paracorynus
• Phacophallus
• Plochionocerus
• Pseudocorynus
• Pseudoxantholinus
• Renda
• Sengenia
• Someira
• Somoleptus
• Stenistoderus
• Stictolinus
• Thyreocephalus
• Ulisseus
• Vulda
• Waitatia
• Walesia
• Whangareiella
• Xantholinus
• Xanthophius
• Xestolinus
• Yunnella
• Zeteotomus

Child Taxa

• Thyreocephalus annulatus
• Thyreocephalus arizonicus
• Thyreocephalus ater
• Thyreocephalus australis
• Thyreocephalus chalcopterus
• Thyreocephalus chloropterus
• Thyreocephalus cribripennis
• Thyreocephalus dugesi
• Thyreocephalus frater
• Thyreocephalus halffteri
• Thyreocephalus manfredi
• Thyreocephalus menglaensis
• Thyreocephalus meridioafricanus
• Thyreocephalus meridionalis
• Thyreocephalus nigerrimus
• Thyreocephalus orthodoxus
• Thyreocephalus puncticeps
• Thyreocephalus rufipennis
• Thyreocephalus scutellaris
• Thyreocephalus semipiceus
• Thyreocephalus taitensis
• Thyreocephalus unicolor

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