Biology of Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae)

Oliver Betz Universität Tübingen, Institut für Evolution und Ökologie, Abteilung für Evolutionsbiologie der Invertebraten, Auf der Morgenstelle 28E, 72076 Tübingen, Germany, email: oliver.betz@uni-tuebingen.de, phone: +49 (0)7071 2972995 Ulrich Irmler Universität Kiel, Institut für Ökosystemforschung, Abteilung für Angewandte Ökologie, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany, email: Uirmler@ecology.uni-kiel.de, phone: +49 (0)431 8804083 Jan Klimaszewski Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, G1V 4C7, Canada, email: Jan.Klimaszewski@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca, phone: +1 418 648 7849

Introduction.- Phylogeny of the family Staphylinidae.- A review of the fossil history of Staphylinoidea.- Biodiversity and geographic patterns of Neotropical Staphylinidae.- Adventive species of rove beetles in Canada.- Effect of environmental conditions on distribution patterns.- A review of Nearctic rove beetles (Staphylinidae) specialized on the burrows and nests of vertebrates.- Rove beetles as bioindicators in agroecosystems.- Parasites of Staphylinidae.- The biology of Steninae.- Biology of acarophagous Scydmeninae.- The evolution of genitalia, spermatophores.- Morphology of the endophallic flagellum.- Morphological diversity of immature Scydmaeninae.