Seven new species of Cephennium Müller & Kunze (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae, Cephenniini) from California with a key to native North American species

By

Hopp, Katie
Caterino, Michael S. (Michael Stephen), 1969-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2009

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

24

Pages

31-54

Subjects

California Floristic Province , Cephenniini , Cephennium , Scydmaeninae , Staphylinidae , systematics

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.24.247

 

Abstract

Seven new species of Cephennium from California are described and illustrated - C. celsifrons, n. sp., C. mariposae, n. sp., C. grandarboreum, n. sp., C. canestroi, n. sp., C. gilberti, n. sp., C. urbanum, n. sp. and C. aridum, n. sp. The single known native Nearctic species, C. anophthalmicum Brendel, was known only from moist coastal forests around the San Francisco Bay area. The new species greatly expand the distribution of the genus, through central and southern California, occurring in the central the Sierra Nevada, south through the coast ranges and Sierra Nevada to the Santa Monica Mountains and desert foothills of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains. A key to all eight species (the entire native Nearctic fauna) of Cephennium occurring in California is provided.