Members of the enormous beetle family Staphylinidae show a wide array of feeding habits and occur in a great diversity of habitats and microhabitats. This diversification is not evenly distributed through the family, however: some clades have extremely narrow habits and others have diversified considerably more. Ecological diversity is correlated with species richness to some extent, but species numbers alone do not fully account for the differing degrees of ecological variation found in different subfamilies.
Species 1: (rove beetle)
Keywords: feeding habits, habitat use
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