141 genera (see text) Xantholinini is a tribe of rove beetle.

[2][3] Xantholinini are small- to medium-sized short-winged beetles (from 2 mm to 2 cm) that are long and slender, short-legged, and shiny.

Xantholinini live on the ground, in bedding, under rocks.

They are predatory beetles that eat other small arthropods.

The tribe Xantholinini is represented in all zoogeographical regions.