Creagrophorus Matthews

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 86

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F901615-D948-4C68-81E9-75282F594BAF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797291
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4E4F5B3F-FFAE-870D-FF75-CEE9FAFFF138
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Creagrophorus Matthews
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Genus Creagrophorus Matthews View in CoL

Creagrophorus Matthews, 1887: 82 View in CoL . Type species: Creagrophorus hamatus Matthews View in CoL (2 species in original de-

scription, all as “new”— hamatus View in CoL , bihamatus View in CoL ); des. in Hatch, 1929b: 57 (not stated as taxonomic change). Note: Revised in Wheeler, 1979b.

Key: to species in Wheeler 1979b: 456; to species of West Indies in Peck & Cook, 2014: 6.

Distribution: 15 species—mostly Neotropical, Japan, India. Note: Undescribed species in Honduras (CMNH); Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (FMNH).

Biology: Feeding on fruiting bodies of puffball fungi (Gasteromycetes) in moist forests ( Newton, 1984).