Creagrophorus Matthews

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 86

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scientific name	Creagrophorus Matthews
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Genus Creagrophorus Matthews View in CoL

Creagrophorus Matthews, 1887: 82 View in CoL . Type species: Creagrophorus hamatus Matthews View in CoL (2 species in original de-

scription, all as “new”— hamatus View in CoL , bihamatus View in CoL ); des. in Hatch, 1929b: 57 (not stated as taxonomic change). Note: Revised in Wheeler, 1979b.

Key: to species in Wheeler 1979b: 456; to species of West Indies in Peck & Cook, 2014: 6.

Distribution: 15 species—mostly Neotropical, Japan, India. Note: Undescribed species in Honduras (CMNH); Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (FMNH).

Biology: Feeding on fruiting bodies of puffball fungi (Gasteromycetes) in moist forests ( Newton, 1984).

References

Hatch, M. H. (1929 b) Liodidae, Clambidae. In: Schenkling, S. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 105. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 100.

Matthews, A. (1887 - 88) Fam. Silphidae. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insects. Coleoptera. Vol. 2 (1). Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 72 - 101, pl. 3.

Newton, A. F. Jr. (1984) Mycophagy in Staphylinoidea (Coleoptera). In: Wheeler, Q. & Blackwell, M. (Eds.), Fungus-insect relationships: perspectives in ecology and evolution. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 302 - 353.

Peck, S. B. & Cook, J. (2014) A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species. Insecta Mundi, 0397, 1 - 76.

Wheeler, Q. D. (1979 b) Revision and cladistics of the middle American genus Creagrophorus Matthews (Coleoptera: Leiodidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae, 15, 447 - 479.