''Scydmaenus'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, Elytron, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, wit ...
belonging to 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, th ...
.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''
Scydmaenus abnormis
''Scydmaenus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of th ...
''
Franz, 1986
* ''
Scydmaenus abyssinicus
''Scydmaenus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.
Species:
* ''Scydmaenus abnormis
''Scydmaenus'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.
The gen ...
''
(Reitter, 1880)
References
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Staphylinidae
Staphylinidae genera