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CREOPHILE [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
DEF

Grand staphylin, de formes robustes, à fortes mandibules, à élytres et à abdomen chargés de fascies gris velouté.

CONT

Les créophiles vivent sur les cadavres, où ils dévorent les larves de mouches. La seule espèce indigène, répandue dans l'Ancien et le Nouveau Monde, est le créophile machelier, noir brillant et gris cendré. Ordre des coléoptères, familles des staphylinidés.

OBS

Au pluriel («créophiles»), ce terme se rapporte à un genre de coléoptères brachélytres (Staphylinides de Kirby).

Key term(s)
  • créophiles

Spanish

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