Wingless ground-living .beetles, about 1,000 species and many genera occurring all over the African contentment , Arabia, Mesopotamia and the Circum-Mediterranean Province. The bulk of species and genera are Ethiopian and in particular Southern African, whereas only two genera of Sepidiina (Sepidium and Vieta) are represented in the Palaearctic and Saharan Regions. Keyword: Anethas, Calognathus, Cervical peduncle, Dactylocalcar, Demarcated cervical peduncle, Elenophorus, Elytral bases, Emarginate, Head prognathous, Lobiform structures, Mesocoxae trochantin, Metasternum, Mitotagenia kaszabi, Myrmecophilous, Petrophilous beetles, Pronotum truncate, Prothorax, Scutellum, Stenosini and Vansonium.