A new species of the Cephennodes taurus group in Yaeyama Islands, Japan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)

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A new species of the taurus group is described from the Yaeyama Islands and compared with three nearby Japanese species. The paper treats a fourteen-species group, so the index records the focal and explicitly compared taxa rather than the entire group.

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Year: 2026
Journal: Zootaxa
Volume: 5837
Issue: 1
Pages / article: 171–178
Publication date: 22 June 2026
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5837.1.9
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Taxa and geography

Subfamily: Scydmaeninae Leach, 1815
Tribe: Cephenniini Reitter, 1882
Genus: Cephennodes Reitter, 1884
Species: Cephennodes pseudoakane Jałoszyński, 2026, Cephennodes akane Hoshina, 2020, Cephennodes maya Hoshina, 2021, Cephennodes yume Hoshina, 2017

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