Craspedomerus
Creators: name: Li, Liang
name: Zhou, Hong-Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Craspedomerus

description: Key to the Chinese species of Craspedomerus
1. Elytra varied metallic blue, violaceous, purple or dark purple..................................................................................... 2
- Elytra fusco-testaceous ................................................................................................................................................. 7
2. Elytra purple with shoulders, posterior margins and suture markedly yellow .................... C. zhangi Li & Zhou sp. n.
- Elytra entirely metallic blue, violaceous, purple or dark purple................................................................................... 3
3. Abdomen entirely black; eyes very large, 1.30–1.60 times as long as tempora ......................... C. sinetuber (Coiffait)
- Abdomen at least partly reddish-yellow; eyes small, 0.67–0.92 times as long as tempora.......................................... 4
4. Antennae entirely black brown ..................................................................................................................................... 5
- Antennae black with 8th–10th segments yellow ............................................................................................................. 6
5. Body very large (HPL: 5.47–5.71); pronotum with profound microsculpture of mesh ................................................. ........................................................................................................................................ C. giganteus Li & Zhou sp. n.
- Body small (HPL: 4.08–4.32); pronotum with profound microsculpture of long waves............................................... .................................................................................................................................... C. gongshanus Li & Zhou sp. n.
6. Pronotum with strongly violaceous reflex; femora dark ..................................................... C. cyanipennis Scheerpeltz
- Pronotum with bronze-green reflex; femora reddish........................................................... C. violaceipennis Cameron
7. Antennae black with 8th–11th segments to various extent yellow................................................. C. beckeri Bernhauer
- Antennae black with 7th–11th segments yellow ............................................................................................................. 8
8. Elytra with a dark transverse fascia across the middle; tergite VII entirely reddish-yellow .... C. glenoides (Schubert)
- Elytra without a dark transverse fascia across the middle; tergite VII with basal third portion black ........................... ................................................................................................................................................... C. ganeshensis Coiffait
description: Published as part of Li, Liang & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2010, Taxonomy of the genus Craspedomerus Bernhauer, 1911 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Philonthina) from China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 2506 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.195931