Cephennium asturicum, REITTER, 1880

Assing, Volker, 2021, On the Cephennium fauna of the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic Islands (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2), pp. 891-931 : 915

Cephennium asturicum group

This lineage includes only one Iberian species, C. asturicum , characterized by a robust and strongly convex (cross-section) body with a large and strongly transverse pronotum, eyes composed of 4-5 ommatidia, elytra with very fine supra-humeral carinae, unmodified male protibiae, and an aedeagus with a long ventral process, distinct internal structures, and short thin parameres with a very long apical seta.