''Microscydmus'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
belonging to the family
Staphylinidae
The rove beetles are a family (biology), family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With over 66,000 species in thousand ...
.
The species of this genus are found in Europe, Australia and Northern America.
Species:
* ''
Microscydmus abditus''
(Coquerel, 1860)
* ''
Microscydmus aberrans''
Franz, 1986
* ''
Microscydmus lynfieldi
''Microscydmus lynfieldi'' is a species of minute beetle belonging to the family Scydmaeninae. First discovered in the Auckland suburb of Lynfield in 1975 and described in 1977, it is endemic to New Zealand. ''M. lynfieldi'' is one of the smalle ...
''
Franz, 1977
References
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Staphylinidae genera