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mould, rotting fruit, animal excrement or decaying logs. Some are obligatory guests of ants or termites; others may be found in nests of small mammals or birds.  A few are ectoparasites on mammals. Many are attracted to lights, particularly in the early evening, and they have been collected in considerable numbers flying at dusk.  A few visit flowers apparently to feed on pollen.  Although their habitats are quite varied, the large majority are predaceous both as larvae and adults on other insects, snails, etc. In the marine habitat they probably feed on crustaceans and other marine organisms as well as larvae of flies found in decaying seaweed, reefs and salt marshes.

 

          Of the 30 or so subfamilies of the Staphylinidae, only 9 contain members which have been reported as regular inhabitants of the seashore (Moore, 1964e, 1967, 1973b). A list of the subfamilies with marine genera is given below. With 30,000 described species of Staphylinidae it has not been possible to search all of the enormous literature for possible references to marine species, so it is likely that we have not included all the, species.

 

                                LIST OF GENERA WITH MARINE MEMBERS

 

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                                                 Family STAPHYLINIDAE

Subfamily Aleocharinae

 

  Tribe Myllaenini

 

    Brachypronomaea

    Myllaena

    Actocharis

    Bryothinusa

    Halorhadinus

 

  Tribe Bolitocharini

    Arena

    Paractocharis

    Halmaeusa

    Corallis

    Phytosus

    Thinusa

    Liparocephalus

    Baeostethus

    Amblopusa

    Bryobiota

    Heterota

    Cameronium

    Diaulota

 

  Tribe Oligotini

    Oligota

 

  Tribe Diglottini

    Diglotta

 

  Tribe Myrmedoniini

    Falagria

    Tachyusa

    Myrrnecopora

    Drusilla

    Pontarnalota

    Acticola

    Atheta

    Halobrecta

    lotarphia

    Tarphiota

 

  Tribe Oxypodini

    Chilodera

    Oxypoda

Tribe Aleocharini

    Aleochara

Subfamily Omaliinae

    Nesomalium

    Omaliomimus

    Micralymma

    Arpediomimus

    Omalium

 

Subfamily Oxytelinae

    Thinobius

    Bledius

    Psamathobledius

    Microbledius

    Sartallus

    Carpelimus

    Oxytelus

 

Subfamily Proteininae

    Proteinus

 

Subfamily Xantholininae

    Hypnogyrus tricolor

 

Subfamily Quediinae

    Heterothops

 

Subfamily Paederinae

    Chetocephalus

    Medon

 

Subfamily Xanthopyginae

    Thinopinus

    Hadropinus

    Hadrotes

 

Subfamily Staphylininae

    Thinocafius

    Cafius

    Phucobius

    Orthidus

    Philonthus