Creagrophorus Matthews 1887
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Creagrophorus

description: Key to species of male Creagrophorus of the West Indies   
 1. Posterior margin of metafemur with a single large toothlike process at apex; pre-apical process absent. St. Vincent and Grenada...............................  C. unidentatus Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 — Posterior margin of metafemur with two toothlike processes..................................................... 2   
 2(1). Pre-apical process of posterior margin of metafemur elongate, slender, as long as or longer than apical process.............................................................................................................................. 3   
 — Apical toothlike process of posterior margin of metafemur distinctly larger than reduced, apically directed pre-apical process......................................................................................................... 4   
 3(2). Pre-apical toothlike process of posterior margin of metafemur distinctly longer than apical process. Cuba...................................................................................  C. cubensis Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 — Toothlike processes of posterior margin of metafemur subequal in length. Hispaniola................................................................................................  C. hispaniolensis Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 4(2). Inverted internal sac with two distinct clusters of larger spines (Fig. 123, 125, 127).............. 5   
 — Inverted internal sac with scattered small spines, without distinct clusters of larger spines (Fig. 119).............................................................................................................................................. 7   
 5(4). Apical process of posterior margin of metafemur large, broad at base, elongate, curved, narrowing to acute apex; pre-apical process reduced to small denticle. Hispaniola..................................................................................................................  C. microdenticulus Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 — Apical processes of posterior margin of metafemur not large, broad at base, elongate, curved, narrowing to acute apex; known only from the Lesser Antilles.............................................. 6   
 6(5). Dorsum with distinct, strong punctation; apical two-thirds of mesotibia abruptly, strongly widened; aedeagus (Fig. 122) depressed before apex. Dominica...  C. dominica Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 — Dorsum finely, sparsely punctate; mesotibia not abruptly widened; aedeagus (Fig. 126) not depressed before apex...................................................................  C. sanctalucia Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 7(4). Bicolored: head and pronotum dark brown, elytra light yellowish brown; aedeagus (Fig. 118) evenly curved dorsoventrally. Martinique...........................  C. bicolor Peck and Cook, n.sp.    
 — Unicolorous reddish brown; aedeagus (Fig. 116) weakly depressed before apex. Jamaica..............................................................................................................................  C. jamaicensis Peck
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on pages 57-58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089