Biology:Cryptocephalini

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Short description: Tribe of beetles

Cryptocephalini
Cryptocephalus by JM Rosier.jpg
An unidentified species of Cryptocephalus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
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

References

  1. "Tribe Cryptocephalini Gyllenhal 1813 (leaf beetle)". http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=283330. 
  2. Morphology and Systematics: Phytophaga. Handbook of Zoology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 2014. 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. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Cryptocephalinae of the World". http://camptosomata.myspecies.info/taxonomy/aporocera-saunders-1842. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1382420 entry