Subgenus Quedius Stephens, 1829

Type species. Staphylinus levicollis Brullé, 1832 by subsequent designation in Opinion 1851 (ICZN 1996: 215).

Diagnosis. Generally large and robust species; pronotum with deflexed hypomera; head with large eyes, fully developed infraorbital ridges and entire (not bilobed or apically notched) labrum; tarsi of forelegs rather wide in both sexes; mesoscutellum with two basal carinae; abdomen almost parallel sided, not notably tapering apicad; aedeagus with sharply pointed median lobe, internal sac well developed and often having heavily sclerotized structures, with longitudinal rows of sensory peg setae on paramere apically.