Order Coleoptera      Superfamily Staphylinoidea 224,232
Ptiliidae	Staphylinidae (rove beetles)			Pselaphidae
The rove beetles (Staphy­linidae) are the 2nd largest family in the animal kingdom with more than 50,000 scientifically described species worldwide. In Germany more than 1500 species are found. Their short elytra leave more than half of their abdomen exposed. There is a considerable variation among the species, sizes range from <1 mm to more than 30 mm. Most of them are of elongate shape. Due the high number of species, rove beetles are known from every type of habitat beetles occur in. Most rove beetles are predators (carnivorous), others feed on decaying plant matter. Some are associated with ants, others life in nests of mammals. Their determination is often not easy, indeed in some cases extremely difficult.
World: 58,000	Europe: 2000	Germany: 1537	collected: 271	fraction: 18%
Species: with photo all    Sort: systematic alphabetical red list ID by photo body length    Gender: male female    Color of pronotum or elytra, total or partial, also metallic shine Color: all black brown blue green yellow red purple white

Siagonium quadricorne ♂	Scaphium immaculatum	Scaphidium quadrimaculatum	Scaphisoma agaricinum	Scaphisoma balcanicum
Phloeocharis subtilissima	Dasycerus sulcatus	Metopsia clypeata	Megarthrus depressus	Megarthrus denticollis
Proteinus brachypterus	Micropeplus fulvus ♀	Micropeplus marietti	Eusphalerum longipenne	Eusphalerum abdominale
Eusphalerum signatum	Phyllodrepa melanocephala	Phyllodrepa ioptera	Omalium rivulare	Xylodromus testaceus
Phyllodrepoidea crenata	Anthobium atrocephalum	Anthobium unicolor	Olophrum piceum	Arpedium quadrum
Amphichroum canaliculatum ♂	Lesteva longoelytrata	Lesteva monticola	Geodromicus nigrita	Anthophagus praeustus
Anthophagus bicornis	Anthophagus angusticollis	Anthophagus alpestris	Coryphium angusticolle	Syntomium aeneum
Deleaster dichrous	Coprophilus striatulus	Manda mandibularis	Ochthephilus omalinus	Carpelimus bilineatus
Carpelimus obesus	Carpelimus impressus	Carpelimus elongatulus	Thinodromus dilatatus	Thinodromus arcuatus
Oxytelus sculptus	Oxytelus piceus	Anotylus insecatus	Anotylus rugosus	Anotylus inustus
Anotylus sculpturatus	Anotylus tetracarinatus	Platystethus cornutus ♂	Platystethus alutaceus ♂	Platystethus nodifrons
Bledius tricornis ♂	Bledius filipes	Bledius opacus	Bledius gallicus	Bledius dissimilis
Bledius cribricollis	Bledius talpa	Bledius subterraneus	Bledius tibialis	Oxyporus maxillosus
Stenus biguttatus	Stenus comma	Stenus guttula	Stenus fossulatus	Stenus aterrimus
Stenus juno	Stenus clavicornis	Stenus providus	Stenus bimaculatus	Stenus boops
Stenus pusillus	Stenus humilis	Stenus brunnipes	Stenus fulvicornis	Stenus tarsalis
Stenus similis	Stenus solutus	Stenus cicindeloides	Stenus kiesenwetteri	Stenus fornicatus
Stenus flavipes	Stenus nitidiusculus	Stenus bifoveolatus	Stenus picipes	Stenus impressus
Stenus ochropus	Dianous coerulescens	Euaesthetus ruficapillus	Paederus fuscipes	Paederus riparius
Paederus littoralis	Paederidus ruficollis	Astenus procerus	Astenus pulchellus	Astenus immaculatus
Astenus gracilis	Rugilus angustatus	Rugilus rufipes	Rugilus similis	Rugilus orbiculatus
Rugilus mixtus	Rugilus erichsoni	Medon brunneus	Medon fusculus	Sunius melanocephalus
Chloecharis debilicornis	Lithocharis nigriceps	Scopaeus laevigatus	Domene scabricollis	Lathrobium terminatum
Lathrobium quadratum	Lathrobium elongatum	Lathrobium pallidipenne	Lathrobium laevipenne	Lathrobium fulvipenne
Lathrobium brunnipes	Lathrobium fovulum	Lathrobium impressum	Lathrobium longulum	Lathrobium pallidum
Achenium depressum	Achenium humile	Cryptobium fracticorne	Leptacinus intermedius	Phacophallus parumpunctatus
Gauropterus fulgidus	Gyrohypnus fracticornis	Xantholinus semirufus	Xantholinus distans	Xantholinus linearis
Atrecus affinis	Othius punctulatus	Neobisnius procerulus	Erichsonius cinerascens	Cafius xantholoma
Philonthus nigrita	Philonthus fumarius	Philonthus atratus	Philonthus coruscus	Philonthus intermedius
Philonthus laminatus	Philonthus cognatus	Philonthus decorus	Philonthus spinipes	Philonthus cephalotes
Philonthus nigriventris	Philonthus varians	Philonthus splendens	Philonthus fimetarius	Philonthus punctus
Philonthus quisquiliarius	Philonthus rufimanus	Philonthus sanguinolentus	Philonthus rectangulus	Philonthus discoideus
Philonthus lepidus	Philonthus micans	Philonthus rubripennis	Philonthus marginatus	Rabigus tenuis
Gabrius nigritulus	Creophilus maxillosus	Ontholestes tessellatus	Ontholestes murinus	Ontholestes haroldi
Emus hirtus	Platydracus fulvipes	Platydracus chalcocephalus	Platydracus stercorarius	Staphylinus erythropterus
Staphylinus caesareus	Staphylinus dimidiaticornis	Ocypus olens	Ocypus ophthalmicus	Ocypus nero ♂
Ocypus brunnipes	Ocypus fulvipennis	Ocypus melanarius	Heterothops niger	Heterothops stiglundbergi
Heterothops dissimilis	Velleius dilatatus	Quedius truncicola	Quedius lateralis	Quedius ochripennis
Quedius cruentus	Quedius xanthopus	Quedius cinctus	Quedius fuliginosus	Quedius curtipennis
Quedius tristis	Quedius molochinus	Quedius picipes	Quedius nigriceps	Quedius maurorufus
Quedius nemoralis	Quedius scintillans	Quedius semiaeneus	Quedius nitipennis	Quedius fulvicollis
Acylophorus wagenschieberi	Acylophorus glaberrimus	Atanygnathus terminalis	Habrocerus capillaricornis	Mycetoporus longulus
Mycetoporus nigricollis	Ischnosoma splendidus	Bryoporus cernuus	Bryophacis crassicornis	Lordithon trinotatus
Lordithon lunulatus	Lordithon pulchellus	Carphacis striatus	Bolitobius cingulata	Bolitobius inclinans
Sepedophilus littoreus	Sepedophilus testaceus	Sepedophilus marshami	Sepedophilus immaculatus	Sepedophilus bipustulatus
Tachyporus nitidulus	Tachyporus obtusus	Tachyporus formosus	Tachyporus solutus	Tachyporus hypnorum
Tachyporus chrysomelinus	Tachyporus transversalis	Tachinus lignorum	Tachinus humeralis	Tachinus subterraneus
Tachinus signatus	Tachinus corticinus	Cilea silphoides	Deinopsis erosa	Gymnusa variegata
Cypha longicornis	Cypha discoidea	Hygronoma dimidiata	Leptusa ruficollis	Bolitochara obliqua
Bolitochara pulchra	Autalia impressa	Cordalia obscura	Myrmecocephalus concinna	Falagrioma thoracica
Tachyusa constricta	Tachyusa balteata	Plataraea brunnea	Atheta graminicola	Atheta episcopalis
Alianta incana	Pachnida nigella	Drusilla canaliculata	Zyras collaris	Zyras limbatus
Zyras lugens	Lomechusa emarginata	Lomechusa pubicollis	Dinarda dentata	Phloeopora corticalis
Thiasophila angulata	Haploglossa nidicola	Aleochara curtula	Aleochara haematodes	Aleochara intricata
Aleochara bipustulata