Creophilus maxillosus villosus (Gravenhorst, 1802)

Creophilus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758) has been treated as an adventive species (Majka and Klimaszewski 2008). Newton et al. (2000), however, pointed out that most North American specimens, often treated as the subspecies C. maxillosus villosus (Gravenhorst, 1802), are distinguishable from the Palaearctic C. m. maxillosus . Creophilus m. villosus has a broad pre-human North American distribution, and hence can be considered a native, Nearctic subspecies. Consequently we remove C. maxillosus from the list of adventive species of the region.