Creophilus

Taxonavigation edit

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Unaccepted species names: C. villipennis

Creophilus Leach, 1819: 172

Type species: Staphylinus maxillosus Linnaeus, 1758 fixed by subsequent designation by ICZN 1959: 141 (Opinion 546).

Saprophilus Streubel, 1839: 136
- Type species Staphylinus maxillosus Linnaeus, 1758, fixed by monotypy.
Creophagus — Streubel, 1839: 137 [lapsus for Creophilus]

Leach, W.E. 1819. [new genera]. In: Samouelle G.: The entomologist’s useful compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British insects comprising the best means of obtaining and preserving them, and a description of the apparatus generally used; together with the genera of Linné, and the modern method of arranging the classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, spiders, mites and insects from their affinities and structure, according to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an explanation of the terms used in entomology: a calendar of the times of appearance, and usual situations of near 3000 species of British insects; with instructions for collecting and fitting up objects for the microscope. London: Thomas Boys, 496 pp. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 172]

Clarke, D.J. 2011. Testing the phylogenetic utility of morphological character systems, with a revision of Creophilus Leach (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 163(3): 723–812. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00725.x Reference page.