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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]
| Cryptocephalini | |
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| An unidentified species of Cryptocephalus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Cryptocephalinae |
| Tribe: | Cryptocephalini Gyllenhaal, 1813 |
| Genera | |
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Several, see text | |
Selected genera edit
- Aporocera Saunders, 1842[4]
- Bassareus Haldeman, 1849[4]
- Cadmus Erichson, 1842[4]
- Cryptocephalus Chapuis, 1875
- Diachus J.L.LeConte, 1880[4]
- Griburius Haldeman, 1849
- Lexiphanes Gistel, 1836
- Pachybrachis Chevrolat, 1836
- Triachus J.L.LeConte, 1880[4]
References edit
- ^ "Tribe Cryptocephalini Gyllenhal 1813 (leaf beetle)". Fossilworks.
- ^ Richard A.B. Leschen; Rolf G. Beutel, eds. (2014). Morphology and Systematics: Phytophaga. Handbook of Zoology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 231. ISBN 9783110274462.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e "Cryptocephalinae of the World". camptosomata.myspecies.info.
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