Cretotyphlus Assing, 2019

Hlaváč, Peter, Janák, Jiří & Baňař, Petr, 2025, Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XXVIII. Synopsis of the subfamily Leptotyphlinae Fauvel, 1874 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Balkan Peninsula, with the description of three new species from Serbia and Montenegro, Zootaxa 5594 (1), pp. 61-97 : 75

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5594.1.3
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scientific name	Cretotyphlus Assing, 2019
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Cretotyphlus Assing, 2019: 263 .

Type species: Cretotyphlus hamatus Assing, 2019 . Original designation.

Diagnosis. Mandibles apically bifid; gular sutures close, but not confluent anteriorly; labrum tridentate, maxillary palpi with palpomeres 2 and 3 enlarged and somewhat flattened, 3 larger than 2; antenna with 11 antennomeres, moderately incrassate, apical antennomeres lacking sensorial appendages, antennal club composed of three last antennomeres; tarsi with 3 tarsommeres; aedeagus with long, slender, and distally acute ventral process, lacking parameres; female genital segment with more or less distinct pair of sclerites.

Remarks. The genus was erected for three new species from Crete and later another species was discovered in Sámos.