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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Staphyliniformia » Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles (Staphylinoidea) » Rove Beetles (Staphylinidae) » Large Rove Beetles (Staphylininae) » Staphylinini » Staphylinina » Creophilus » Hairy Rove Beetle (Creophilus maxillosus)

Species Creophilus maxillosus - Hairy Rove Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Beetle - Creophilus maxillosus Hairy Rove Beetle - Creophilus maxillosus Rove with Parasites? - Creophilus maxillosus Rove with Parasites? - Creophilus maxillosus Creophilus maxillosus Hairy rove beetle (front 3/4) - Creophilus maxillosus Staphylinidae - Creophilus maxillosus Beetle on dead wild boar carcass - Creophilus maxillosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea (Rove, Carrion and Fungus Beetles)
Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)
Subfamily Staphylininae (Large Rove Beetles)
Tribe Staphylinini
Subtribe Staphylinina
Genus Creophilus
Species maxillosus (Hairy Rove Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Creophilus maxillosus (Linnaeus 1758)
Numbers
2 sspp. in our area(1)
Size
12-21 mm
Range
C. m. villosus is native and widespread in NA, C. m. maxillosus is native to the Palaearctic and is known from scattered records from ON, QC, and MA (first detected: ~1620, NF)(2) and many other parts of the New World(1)
Habitat
grassy and open forested habitats, lake/ocean shorelines; on carrion (typically, larger carcasses), rarely on dung, compost, or at lights(1)
Food
maggots and adult flies, also other arthropods(1)
Internet References
Species page(1)
Works Cited
1.Staphylinidae of eastern Canada and the adjacent United States. Keys to subfamilies; Staphylininae: ...
Brunke A., Newton A., Klimaszewski J., Majka C.G., Marshall S. 2011. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 12: 1-110.
2.Introduced Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G., Klimaszewski J. 2008. The Canadian Entomologist 140: 48-72.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 24 April, 2005 - 7:44pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, v belov, KenW
Last updated 1 May, 2013 - 6:31pm

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