Creophilus Leach, 1819

SMETANA, ALEŠ & DAVIES, ANTHONY, 2000, Reclassification of the North Temperate Taxa Associated with Staphylinus Sensu Lato, Including Comments on Relevant Subtribes of Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), American Museum Novitates 3287, pp. 1-1 : 1-

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2000)287<0001:ROTNTT>2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543902

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scientific name

Creophilus Leach, 1819
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TYPE SPECIES: Staphylinus maxillosus Linne´, 1758 .

COMMENTS: Members of this genus may be easily recognised by the following shared character states: ( 1) palpifer with one long subapical seta and three to four shorter apical setae; ( 2) disc of pronotum and most of dorsal face of pronotum virtually impunctate and asetose; ( 3) middle coxae widely separated by broadly rounded apical margin of mesosternum; ( 4) pronotal hypomeron with superior line becoming obsolete near anterior angles of pronotum and not joining the inferior line ( fig. 49 View Figs ); ( 5) presence, on both dorsal and ventral faces of body, of long, more­or­less variegate pubescence varying in color from black to grayish­silver, grayishgolden, yellowish­red, or brownish­red (such pubescence not present in a few species occurring elsewhere); ( 6) anterior projection of metasternum very broad, with margins obsolete; and ( 7) dorsal apicolateral lobe of hind coxa without distinct spines, or spines very fine.

Further character states include: mandibles each with microsculpture on mediobasal portion; mandibular prostheca copiously ciliate along entire length, with long, dense basal ciliae gradually shortening apicad; postmandibular ridge absent; deflected portion of pronotal disc visible in ventral view from about anterior edge of pronotal epimeron, which is well developed and membranous; metasternum oblique, highly convex between coxae, then horizontal.

This genus is assigned by some authors (e.g., Coiffait, 1974: 557; Moore and Legner, 1979: 32) to the subtribe Xanthopygina based on the configuration of the superior and inferior lines of the pronotal hypomeron (see above). Although Creophilus (with Hadrotes and Thinopinus ) seems to be intermediate between the two subtribes, characters 1, 6, and 7 above are shared exclusively with members of the Staphylinina ; together with the absence of the postmandibular ridge, these confirm their closer affinity with the Staphylinina .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

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