The Cryptocephalini are a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
within the
leaf beetle
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
subfamily Cryptocephalinae
The Cryptocephalinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles ( Chrysomelidae), and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata.
The tribes Fulcidacini and Clytrini were formerly considered subfamilies of their own, a ...
. As the other Cryptocephalinae, they belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles known as
Camptosomata. Some species are myrmecophilous.
[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. ]
Selected genera
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Aporocera''
Saunders, 1842
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Bassareus''
Haldeman, 1849
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Cadmus''
Erichson, 1842
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Cryptocephalus''
Chapuis, 1875
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Diachus''
J.L.LeConte, 1880
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Griburius''
Haldeman, 1849
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Lexiphanes''
Gistel, 1836
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Pachybrachis''
Chevrolat, 1836
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Triachus''
J.L.LeConte, 1880
References
External links
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Cryptocephalinae
Taxa named by Leonard Gyllenhaal
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