Simplified Staphylinidae phylogenies from A McKenna et al. (2019: fig. S10), ML tree B Lü et al. (2019: fig. S4), ML tree C Cai and Li (2021: fig. 1), ML tree D Song et al. (2021: fig. 1), Bayesian tree. Silphinae indicated in red, asterisks indicate well-supported branches.