Belongs within: Pselaphitae.
Stipesa is an Old World genus of pselaphine beetles with the fourth tergite of the abdomen much larger than the others, a three-segmented antennal segment, and two unequal claws on each tarsus.
<==Stipesa Sharp 1874R04 [incl. Filiger Schaufuss 1877NG05, R04]
|--‘Filiger’ ampliventris Schaufuss 1877R04
|--‘Filiger’ batavianus Raffray 1903R04
|--‘Filiger’ cariniventris Schaufuss 1877R04
|--‘Hybocephalus minimus’ Schaufuss 1882 non Motsch. 1851 [=Filiger minimus]R04
|--‘Filiger’ opacus Raffray 1904R04
|--S. rudis Sharp 1874R04
|--‘Hybocephalus squamosus’ Schaufuss 1882 non Motsch. 1851 [=Filiger squamosus non Raffray 1896]R04
|--‘Filiger’ squamosus Raffray 1896 non R04
|--‘Filiger’ validus Raffray 1904 R04
`--‘Filiger’ vestitus Raffray 1883 R04
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[NG05] Nomura, S., & I. Abd Ghani. 2005. Faunistic notes on the pselaphine species of the supertribes Goniaceritae, Pselaphitae and Clavigeritae from Malaysia and Singapore (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Serangga 10 (1–2): 1–36.
[R04] Raffray, A. 1904. Genera et catalogue des psélaphides [part II]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 1–400.