''Cafius'' is a genus of relatively large rove 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 are about 8 described species in ''Cafius'' found in North America, and approaching 50 globally .
Species
* ''
Cafius aguayoi''
Bierig, 1934
* ''
Cafius bistriatus''
Er.
* ''
Cafius canescens''
(Mäklin, 1852)
* ''
Cafius femoralis''
* ''
Cafius lithocharinus''
(LeConte, 1863)
* ''
Cafius luteipennis''
Le Conte
* ''
Cafius nauticus''
(Fairmaire, 1849)
* ''
Cafius seminitens''
Horn
* ''
Cafius sulcicollis''
(LeConte, 1863)
References
Further reading
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Cafius''* Arnett, R. H. Jr., and M. C. Thomas (eds.). (2001). ''American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniaformia''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
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* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Staphylininae
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