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Apatetica
Apatetica princeps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Staphyliniformia
Family:	Staphylinidae
Subfamily:	Apateticinae
Genus:	Apatetica Westwood, 1848
Synonyms
Idiochila Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910 Trigaeus Bernhauer & Schubert, 1910 Idiocheila Frivaldszky, J., 1883 Trygaeus Sharp, 1874

Apatetica is a genus of rove beetles.

There are 27 species assigned to the genus, with one being provisionally accepted:

• A. angusticollis Chang, Schillhammer & Tang, 2024 (provisionally accepted)
• A. aspera Assing, 2018
• A. birmana Cameron, 1930
• A. brunnipes Ritsema, 1879
• A. caeruleipennis Cameron, 1930
• A. callosa Jansson, A., 1946
• A. confusa Assing, 2018
• A. curtipennis Assing, 2018
• A. gibba Assing, 2018
• A. glabra Assing, 2018
• A. glaucipennis Assing, 2018
• A. intermedia Cameron, 1930
• A. javanica (Sharp, 1892)
• A. laevicollis Fauvel, 1904
• A. lebioides Westwood, 1848
• A. nitiduloides Westwood, 1864
• A. princeps (Sharp, 1874)
• A. rotundicollis Fauvel, 1904
• A. semiviolacea Fauvel, 1904
• A. siamensis Lewis, 1893
• A. sikkimi Fauvel, 1895
• A. sparsicollis Fauvel, 1904
• A. spinipennis (Frivaldszky, J., 1883)
• A. sulcata Madge, 1980
• A. sumatrana Cameron, 1930
• A. viridipennis Fauvel, 1895
• A. xuyuhaoi Chang, Schillhammer & Tang, 2025