Scopaeus complex

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Staphylinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Scopaeus complex Sharp, 1874: 61

Type locality: Japan.
Lectotype: BMNH Sharp Coll. 1905-313; NHMUK015009822, ♂, leg. Lewis [designated in Frisch, 2025].

Scopaeus complex Sharp, 1874: 61 [org. comb.]
- Scopaeus (Scopaeus) complex (Sharp); Smetana (2004: 616)

Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam.

Sharp, D. 1874. The Staphylinidae of Japan. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [22(1)]: 1–103. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1874.tb00159.x BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 61]

Frisch, J. 2025. The Scopaeus decipiens species group from the East Palaearctic and the Oriental Regions, with redescription of S. velutinus Motschulsky, 1858 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae: Lathrobiini). Zootaxa 5693(2): 179–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.2.3 . Reference page. [records, lectotype, redescription, distribution: p. 187, figs. 12–19, 30–41, 56, 59]