Cephennium

Life-forms

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

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Cephenniitae
Tribus: Cephenniini
Genus: Cephennium
Subgenera: Cephennarium – Geodytes – Macroderus – Neocephennium – Phennecium

Cephennium (s. str.) species: C. albericum – C. albericum – C. angelinii – C. argodi – C. assingi – C. australe – C. bosnicum – C. carnicum – C. carpathicum – C. cauchoisi – C. cribrum – C. crinitum – C. dalmatinum – C. dariae – C. debusschei – C. delicatulum – C. delicatum – C. difficile – C. doderoi – C. faillai – C. fairchildi – C. fairmairei – C. fallax – C. fraterculum – C. gallicum – C. helveticum – C. horni – C. hungaricum – C. irenae – C. istriense – C. italicum – C. ivanicum – C. ivanjicense – C. jureceki – C. kiesenwetteri – C. kulzeri – C. lantosquense – C. laticolle – C. lavagnei – C. lefebvrei – C. leonhardi – C. lessinicum – C. machulkai – C. majus – C. maritimum – C. matronulum – C. merditanum – C. mlejneki – C. montanum – C. montenegrinum – C. mycetaeoides – C. nicaense – C. paganettii – C. perispinctum – C. reissi – C. remisianum – C. rossii – C. ruthenum – C. sarajevense – C. serbicum – C. settei – C. simile – C. sladjanae – C. slovenicum – C. stolzi – C. tauricum – C. thoracicum – C. tirolense – C. trebinjense – C. tronqueti – C. vespertilio – C. viti – C. vitoshae – C. zoiai

Cephennium (subgenus incertae sedis) species: C. anophthalmicum – C. aridum – C. canestroi – C. celsifrons – C. chirgisianum – C. felicitas – C. gilberti – C. grandarboreum – C. lusitanum – C. mariposae – C. ovatum – C. portomosense – C. scutulatum – C. silvai – C. urbanum

Species overview: C. aciferum – C. affimbriatum – C. alacantae – C. albericum – C. algarvense – C. andreinii – C. andujari – C. angelinii – C. anophthalmicum – C. apicale – C. apuanum – C. arcuatum – C. argodi – C. aridum – C. assingi – C. asturicum – C. atomarium – C. aubei – C. australe – C. bekchievi – C. besucheti – C. bicolor – C. bodemeyeri – C. bosnicum – C. brachati – C. caecum – C. canestroi – C. carnicum – C. carpathicum – C. carrarae – C. catalonicum – C. catax – C. caucasicum – C. cauchoisi – C. cazorlae – C. celsifrons – C. chanianum – C. chirgisianum – C. coiffaiti – C. conlectior – C. constrictum – C. cornutum – C. corruptum – C. cribrum – C. crinitum – C. cujonicum – C. curvatum – C. cyclonotum – C. dalmatinum – C. dariae – C. debusschei – C. decipiens – C. delicatulum – C. delicatum – C. deplectens – C. difficile – C. digitale – C. dilatatum – C. divergens – C. doderianum – C. doderoi – C. dogueti – C. dolucanum – C. dramanum – C. duplum – C. ericinum – C. espunae – C. faillai – C. fairchildi – C. fairmairei – C. fallax – C. felicitas – C. fibuliferum – C. filabresicum – C. fimbriatum – C. fortespinosum – C. fovangulum – C. fractum – C. fraterculum – C. fulvum – C. galitense – C. gallicum – C. ganglbaueri – C. garganicum – C. geminum – C. gilberti – C. gladiator – C. grandarboreum – C. granulum – C. grouvellei – C. guillebeaui – C. hamulatum – C. helveticum – C. hipponense – C. hlavaci – C. holdhausi – C. horni – C. hungaricum – C. hypogaeum – C. ibericum – C. idanum – C. immutatum – C. infractum – C. insulare – C. irenae – C. istriense – C. italicum – C. ivanicum – C. ivanjicense – C. jablanicense – C. jonicum – C. jordanicum – C. judaeum – C. jureceki – C. kartalicum – C. kerpense – C. kiesenwetteri – C. koziorowiczi – C. kulzeri – C. lantosquense – C. laticolle – C. latius – C. lavagnei – C. lavezzianum – C. lefebvrei – C. leonhardi – C. lesinae – C. lessinicum – C. liguliferum – C. liliputanum – C. linguatum – C. lipadusae – C. lompei – C. lostiae – C. lusitanum – C. machulkai – C. majus – C. malagae – C. marasicum – C. mariposae – C. maritimum – C. matronulum – C. merditanum – C. metasternale – C. meybohmi – C. minimum – C. minutissimum – C. mlejneki – C. montanum – C. montenegrinum – C. mycetaeoides – C. nanulum – C. nemruticum – C. nevadae – C. nicaense – C. nobile – C. olympicum – C. omessanum – C. ovatum – C. paganettii – C. pellucidum – C. perispinctum – C. petraeum – C. portomosense – C. punctatum – C. puncticolle – C. punctithorax – C. punicum – C. pygmaeum – C. rasna – C. raymondi – C. reductum – C. regale – C. reissi – C. remisianum – C. romanum – C. rossii – C. roubali – C. rubidum – C. rugatulum – C. ruthenum – C. sagittatum – C. samothracicum – C. sarajevense – C. sardoum – C. saulcyi – C. scabrum – C. scutulatum – C. segurae – C. selenanum – C. selinonum – C. senectum – C. serbicum – C. settei – C. sicaferum – C. siculum – C. silvai – C. simile – C. sinuosum – C. sladjanae – C. slovenicum – C. solarii – C. spinigerum – C. stolzi – C. tarsale – C. tauricum – C. tensum – C. tenuissimum – C. theryanum – C. thoracicum – C. thripticum – C. tirolense – C. trebinjense – C. tronqueti – C. unguicum – C. urbanum – C. validum – C. varispinosum – C. vellicans – C. verrens – C. vespertilio – C. victrix – C. viti – C. vitoshae – C. vitsiense – C. weingaertneri – C. wunderlei – C. zoiai

Invalid species names: C. spinicolle
Name

Cephennium Müller & Kunze, 1822: 188

Type species: Cephennium truncorum Müller, 1822 (= Scydmaenus thoracicus Müller, 1822), fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Megaladera Stephens, 1833: 90 [no description]
Type species: Scydmaenus thoracicus Müller & Kunze, 1822, fixed by monotypy.
Microdema Laporte de Castelnau, 1835: 138
Type species: Scydmaenus thoracicus Müller & Kunze, 1822, fixed by monotypy.
Megaladerus Stephens, 1835: 428
Type species: Scydmaenus thoracicus Müller & Kunze, 1822, fixed by monotypy.
Tyttosoma Westwood, 1840: 157 [sy. of Megaladerus; attributed to Wesmael; unavailable, never used as valid]
Tytthosoma Agassiz, 1846: 383 [unjustified emendation of Tyttosoma; attributed to Wesmael]
Anisosphaera Tömösváry, 1883: 128 [based on larva only]
Type species: Anisosphaera problematica Tömösváry, 1884, fixed by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Müller, P.W.J. & Kunze, G. 1822. Monographie der Ameisenkäfer (Scydmaenus Latreille). Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig 1: 175–204. [original description: p. 188]

Additional references

Assing, V., Brachat, V. & Meybohm, H. 2019. Monograph of the Staphylinidae of Crete (Greece). Part II. Descriptions of new species (Insecta: Coleoptera). Beiträge zur Entomologie 69(2): 239–289. DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.69.2.239-289 Reference page. [comment: p. 266; Key to the Cephennium species of Crete: p. 272]
Castellini, G. 2011: Five new Cephennium species from Italy (Coleoptera Scydmaenidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 143(2): 77–88.
Castellini, G. 2011: On some Scydmaenidae from Portugal (Coleoptera). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana, 143(3): 103–110. abstract only seen
Jałoszyński, P. 2011: Taxonomic status of Cephenniini described by Schaufuss from Singapore (Coleoptera: Staphyliniae: Scydmaeninae). Genus, 22(1): 9–16. PDF
Hopp, K.J. & Caterino, M.S. 2009. Seven new species of Cephennium Müller & Kunze (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae, Cephenniini) from California with a key to native North American species. ZooKeys 24: 31–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.24.247 Reference page.
Jałoszyński, P. & Stevanović, M. 2015: A new Cephennium of Kyrgyzstan, with notes on subgenera and distribution (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 3973(2): 381–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.2.11. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Jałoszyński, P. & Struyve, T. 2016. A new subterranean Iberian Cephennium with unusually modified metatrochanters (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4189(2): 291–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.5. Reference page.
Stevanović, M. 2011: Study of the genus Cephennium Müller & Kunze, 1822 from the Balkan Peninsula. Part I. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Genus, 22(4): 551–564. PDF
Stevanović, M. 2014: Study of the genus Cephennium Müler & Kunze, 1822 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae) from the Balkan Peninsula. Part II. New species of the subgenus Cephennium s. str. Zootaxa 3838(3): 287–309. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3838.3.3 Reference page.

Cephennium is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae.[1]

The genus was first described by Müller and Kunze in 1822.[1]

The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America.[1]

Species:

Cephennium majus Reitter, 1882[1]

References

"Cephennium Müller & Kunze, 1822". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 19 February 2021.