A new species of the Cephennodes taurus group in Yaeyama Islands, Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)
Citation details
Scientific scope
Taxonomic coverage: Subfamily — Complete; Tribe — Complete; Genus — Complete; Species — Partial
Country: Japan
Reported localities: Ishigaki Island, Iriomote Island, Yaeyama Islands, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Work type: taxonomy, new species, comparative morphology, identification key
Keywords: Coleoptera, Cephenniini, Ryukyus, taxonomy
Verification and provenance
Bibliographic identity verified from official sources
Scientific metadata: Partial · Status definitions
Confirmed and represented
- The bibliographic identity, DOI, publication date, subfamily Scydmaeninae, genus Cephennodes, the focal new species and the reported Japanese geography are confirmed.
- The current record includes Cephennodes pseudoakane and three nearby species explicitly compared in the source.
- The Cephenniini parent is supported by a publisher keyword; it is not inferred from name similarity.
- The DOI resolves to the official publisher article page.
Limits and unresolved fields
- The taurus group contains 14 species, so species-level indexing is partial.
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