Subfamily
Staphylininae
Tasgius ater. Photo: (c) Kurt Andreas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Staphylininae are a subfamily of rove beetles (family Staphylinidae). They contain the typical rove beetles with their long but fairly robust blunt-headed and -tipped bodies and short elytra, as well as some more unusually-shaped lineages.