''Cephennium'' is a genus of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

s belonging to the family

Staphylinidae The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With roughly 63,000 species in thousands of genera, the ...

. The genus was first described by Müller and Kunze in 1822. The species of this genus are found in Europe and Northern America. Species: * '' Cephennium majus'' Reitter, 1882

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15635877 Scydmaeninae Staphylinidae genera