Environmental stress from abiotic conditions imposes physiological limits on individuals within communities, and these stressful can act as a filter the species present in any given environment. Such stressors reduce community's diversity make its composition more phylogenetically clustered. Using decade of staphylinid beetle (Staphylinidae, Coleoptera, rove beetles) collections made across 150...

Wetlands and especially floodplain forests belong to the most endangered ecosystems in Europe, characterized by complex dynamics of flood dry periods providing specific irreplaceable habitats for many organisms, including bioindicators. Many rove beetle species, instance, are well-known detectors monitoring ecological change, however, their use environmental assessment requires expand insuffici...

In preparation for the new edition of the identification keys of rove beetles of Central Europe (Volume 4 of the "Die Käfer Mitteleuropas"), the following systematic problems affecting the Central European fauna of the tribe Staphylinini are addressed: phylogeny-based, new concepts for the subtribes Quediina and Amblyopinina; status of the subtribe Tanygnathinina; systematic position of the gen...

Australotarsius Solodovnikov & Newton, gen. nov., a new genus of rove beetles of the tribe Staphylinini, endemic to Australia, is described and compared to other Staphylinini. It includes two new species, A. grandis Solodovnikov & Newton, sp. n. from Queensland and New South Wales, and A. tasmanicus Solodovnikov & Newton, sp. n. from Tasmania. The systematic position of Australotarsius within S...