Cryptocephalini

Last updated

Cryptocephalini
Cryptocephalus nitidus01.jpg
Cryptocephalus nitidus
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
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]

Contents

Selected genera

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. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cryptocephalinae of the World". camptosomata.myspecies.info.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.