''Machaerodes'' is a genus of ant-loving beetles in the family

Staphylinidae The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With roughly 63,000 species in thousands of genera, the ...

. There is one described species in ''Machaerodes'', ''M. carinatus''.

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