Creophilus maxillosus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hu, Fang-Shuo, 2020, New distributional records of Staphylinina in Taiwan, including a new species of Miobdelus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae: Staphylinini), Zootaxa 4768 (3), pp. 334-360 : 336

Creophilus maxillosus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Material examined. TAIWAN: Chiayi County: 2 females, Alishan Chiayn , 26/IV/1990, C. C. Chiang, Sweep & Searching [specimens NMNS ENT 603-131 and NMNS ENT 603-98 ] ( NMNS) . Hualien County: 1 female , Hualien County: Wangrong, Ruisui forest rd. (ḾÑIJǎ), nr. Hongye river , 23.502784N, 121.329142E, [snake corpse], 12.II.2020, Y. Sun leg (FSHc) . Nantou County: 1 female, ĽIJữ [= Sunlinksea ], (23.6365088, 120.7907667), V- 2015, C. R . Chen leg. (FSHc); 1 spec., Lushan [ ƋƜ], VI . 25.1997, C.C.Lo, None ( NMNS) . New Taipei City: 2 females, Balaka highway (巴Ḥ卡ŵớ), Sanzhi Dist., 16-V-2015, in Paguma larvat corpse, leg. B. H. Ho (FSHc); 3 males, 3 females, Yibiajia (一Ŋ¬), Sanxia Dist. , 27-II-2019, leg. C. W. Kuo [collected from carrion of Muntiacus reevesi ] (FSHc) . Taichung City: 1 female, Wanfeng [Aē] , Taichung Hsien, IV, 1979, KSLin ( TARI) . Yunlin County: 1 female, Kukeng Tsao-ling , 1992/X/28, W. T . Yang , Sweeping Net [ NMNS ENT 1426-392 ] ( NMNS) . Taipei City: 1 male, National Taiwan University, Da’an Dist. , 09-XI-2015, leg. C. M. Leong (pig corpse) (FSHc) .

Diagnosis. In Taiwan, C. maxillosus maxillosus can be easily distinguished from C. flavipennis by the presence of grey pubescence on the elytra and abdominal tergites.

Bionomics. Many specimens reported here were collected from mammal carrion (including Muntiacus reevesi (Ogilby) or Paguma larvata (Hamilton-Smith)) . The specimen from Ruisui was collected from the carrion of Ptyas mucosa (Linnaeus) . Some of the specimens were collected by a sweeping net. Creophilus maxillosus maxillosus is widely used in forensic entomology (etc., Wang et al. 2017, Matuszewski & Frątczak-Łagiewska 2018) and further detailed biological information can be found in Greene (1996).

Distribution. Creophilus maxillosus maxillosus is widespread in the Palaearctic region and on most Atlantic islands ( Clarke 2011, Newton 2019). This subspecies was also introduced to the New World ( Newton 1997, Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002, Asenjo & Clarke 2008).

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FIGURES 1–7. 1. Creophilus flavipennis: female. 2. Creophilus maxillosus maxillosus: male. 3. Agelosus auricomus: male. 4.