Genus Cephennium

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Cephennium canestroi Hopp & Caterino --paratype - Cephennium canestroi

Cephennium grandarboreum Hopp & Caterino --paratype - Cephennium grandarboreum

Cephennium gallicum Gangelbauer - Cephennium gallicum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)

Superfamily Staphylinoidea

Family Staphylinidae (Rove Beetles)

Subfamily Scydmaeninae (Ant-like Stone Beetles)

Tribe Cephenniini

Genus Cephennium

Explanation of Names

Cephennium Müller & Kunze 1822

Numbers

9 spp. in our area (of which one adventive), >130 spp. total(1)

Range

most spp. in w. Palaearctic; in our area, 8 spp. in CA + the adventive C. gallicum in se. Canada(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Seven new species of Cephennium Müller & Kunze (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae, Cephenniini) from California... Hopp K.J., Caterino M.S. 2009. ZooKeys 24: 31–54.

2.	Phloeocharis subtilissima (Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae) and Cephennium gallicum (Scydmaenidae) new to North America... C.G. Majka & J. Klimaszewski. 2004. Zootaxa 781: 1–15.

Contributed by v belov on 7 March, 2011 - 1:42am
Last updated 25 February, 2017 - 4:39pm

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