Cryptocephalini

Cryptocephalini
Cryptocephalus nitidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Cryptocephalinae
Tribe:	Cryptocephalini Gyllenhaal, 1813
Genera
Several, see text

The Cryptocephalini are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae. ^[1] As the other Cryptocephalinae, they belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles known as Camptosomata. ^[2] Some species are myrmecophilous. ^[3]

Selected genera

• Aporocera Saunders, 1842 ^[4]
• Bassareus Haldeman, 1849 ^[4]
• Cadmus Erichson, 1842 ^[4]
• Coenobius Suffrian, 1857
• Cryptocephalus Chapuis, 1875
• Diachus J.L.LeConte, 1880 ^[4]
• Ditropidus Erichson, 1842
• Lexiphanes Gistel, 1836
• Loxopleurus Suffrian, 1859
• Pycnophthalma Maulik, 1929
• Triachus J.L.LeConte, 1880 ^[4]

References

1. "Tribe Cryptocephalini Gyllenhal 1813 (leaf beetle)". Fossilworks.
2. Richard A.B. Leschen; Rolf G. Beutel, eds. (2014). Morphology and Systematics: Phytophaga. Handbook of Zoology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 231. ISBN   9783110274462.
3. Agrain F.A., M. Buffington, C.S. Chaboo, M.L. Chamorro, & M.E. Schöller. 2015. Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life histories of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). ZooKeys 547: 133–164.
4. "Cryptocephalinae of the World". camptosomata.myspecies.info.

External links

• "Cryptocephalini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.