# Ctenistini

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**Ctenistini** is a tribe of ant-loving beetles in the family [Staphylinidae](/source/Staphylinidae). There are at least four genera and about six described species in Ctenistini.[1]

The tribe was described in 1845 by Blanchard,[2][3] and the type genus is *[Ctenistes](/source/Ctenistes)* Reichenbach, 1816.[2]

## Genera

These five genera belong to the tribe Ctenistini:

- *[Atinus](/source/Atinus)* Horn, 1868 i c g b
- *[Biotus](/source/Biotus)* Casey, 1887 i c g b
- *[Ctenisis](/source/Ctenisis)* Raffray, 1890 i c g b
- *[Ctenisodes](/source/Ctenisodes)* Raffray, 1897 i c g b
- *[Centrotoma](/source/Centrotoma)* Heyden, C., 1849 c

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[1]

## References

1. ["Ctenistini Tribe Information"](https://bugguide.net/node/view/498100). *BugGuide.net*. Retrieved 2018-04-22.

1. ["Tribe Ctenistini Blanchard, 1845"](https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Ctenistini). *Australian Faunal Directory*. Australian Government. Retrieved 2025-07-15.

1. Blanchard, E. 1845. *Histoire des insectes, traitant de leurs moeurs et de leurs métamorphoses en général, et comprenant une nouvelle classification fondée sur leurs rapports naturels. Hyménoptères et Coléoptères*. Paris : Didot Vol. 1 v, 396 pp., [306].

1. ["ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System"](https://www.itis.gov/). Retrieved 2018-04-22.

1. ["Catalogue of Life"](http://www.catalogueoflife.org/). Retrieved 2018-04-22.

1. ["GBIF"](https://www.gbif.org/). Retrieved 2018-04-22.

## Further reading

- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). [*An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up). Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". *ZooKeys*. '***(88): 1–972. Pensoft Publishers. [doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.88.807). [ISSN 1313-2989](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1313-2989). [PMC 3088472](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088472). [PMID 21594053](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21594053)***
- Brunke, A. & Marshall, S. (2011). ["Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada"](https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3088045). *ZooKeys*. '***(75): 29–68. [doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.75.767). [PMC 3088045](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088045). [PMID 21594139](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21594139)***
- Chandler, D.S. (1997). [*A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Family: Pselaphidae*](http://entomology.si.edu/coleoptera/ColeopteraCatalog/Pselaphidae_529-31.pdf). USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-31.
- Crotch, G.R. (1873). [*Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico*](https://archive.org/details/checklistofcoleo00crot). Naturalists' Agency. [doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811](https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.38811). ISBN 0665070772.
- Evans, Arthur V. & Hogue, James N. (2006). *Field Guide to Beetles of California*. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577.
- Frank, J.H. & Ahn, K.J. (2011). "Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history". *ZooKeys*. '***(107): 1–98. [doi:10.3897/zookeys.107.1651](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.107.1651). [PMC 3392188](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3392188). [PMID 22792029](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22792029)***
- Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Chandler, D.; Savard, K. et al. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". *ZooKeys*. '***(22): 19–33. [doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.22.177)***
- Klimaszewski, J.; McLean, J.; Li, A.; Savard, K. (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". *ZooKeys*. '***(22): 5–17. [doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86](https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.22.86)***
- Klimaszewski, Jan & Watt, J.Charles (1997). ["Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification"](https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1797/). *Fauna of New Zealand*. **37**
- Lawrence, J.F. & Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). *Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)*. Vol. 2. Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Pakaluk, James & Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). [*Classification of the Coleoptera of North America*](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732). Vol. 3, no. 136. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Smithsonian Institution. [doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459](https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.38459). ISBN 0665100558.
- Leng, Charles W. (1920). [*Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico*](https://archive.org/details/catalogueofcoleo00leng_0). John D. Sherman, Jr. [doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777](https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8777)
- Mazur, Slawomir (2004). *Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera*. Volume 2: Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.). Apollo Books. pp. 68–102. ISBN 87-88757-74-9.
- White, Richard E. (1998 [1983]). [*A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides)*](https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

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