Creophilus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Clarke, Dave J., 2011, Testing the phylogenetic utility of morphological character systems, with a revision of Creophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 163 (3), pp. 723-812 : 759

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00725.x

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FBFE9195-BE04-4AFE-9417-6E38BCE6AB84

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5492129

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B414F-1958-FFDE-FF33-F9254816FD6E

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Valdenar

scientific name

Creophilus maxillosus
status

 

CREOPHILUS MAXILLOSUS View in CoL SPECIES- GROUP

This species group was originally proposed by Newton (1985) for the Holarctic and Oriental species. With recognition of three new synonyms and description of one new species, five species are included here.

Diagnosis: Head black or brownish-black; antennomere 2 subequal in length to 3 or shorter; antennomere 11 with apical pairs of setae situated on either side of antennal axis (e.g. Fig. 13F View Figure 13 ); right mandible with T3 directly ventral to T2 and mandibular blade, mostly (in C. incanus entirely) hidden from dorsal view beneath mandibular blade ( Fig. 13A View Figure 13 ); anterior pronotal angles produced laterally ( Figs 2G, 13E View Figure 13 ); abdominal tergites III–V without secondary transverse basal ridge; apical fringe of tergites III–VI with at least paired groups of white or golden setae medially, rest of body with variably black, brown, whitish-grey, or golden-brown vestiture ( Fig. 1F–J); median lobe of aedeagus completely divided ventrally by membranous strip ( Fig. 3C, arrow). Large males with: apical portion of mandibles exceeding 0.9 times length of basal portion (ML1/ML2 range of all males = 0.60–1.09); without ventrolateral carina of head; pronotum widest at anterior angles; base of profemur with spine-like apophysis ( Fig. 9D, arrow); superior pronotal marginal line abruptly deflected beneath disc of pronotum at point of basolateral denticle ( Fig. 2G, bpd).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Creophilus

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