| Cryptocephalini | |
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| Cryptocephalus nitidus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Cryptocephalinae |
| Tribe: | Cryptocephalini Gyllenhaal, 1813 |
| Genera | |
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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, 18424
- Bassareus Haldeman, 18494
- Cadmus Erichson, 18424
- Coenobius Suffrian, 1857
- Cryptocephalus Chapuis, 1875
- Diachus J.L.LeConte, 18804
- Ditropidus Erichson, 1842
- Lexiphanes Gistel, 1836
- Loxopleurus Suffrian, 1859
- Pycnophthalma Maulik, 1929
- Triachus J.L.LeConte, 18804
References
References
- "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.
- "Cryptocephalinae of the World". camptosomata.myspecies.info.