Species Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus Jacoby - Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus

On Pine, high elevation - Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus

Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus

Case-bearer - Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Cryptocephalini

Subtribe Cryptocephalina

Genus Cryptocephalus

No Taxon (Quercus group)

Species atrofasciatus (Cryptocephalus atrofasciatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Jacoby 1880

Explanation of Names

Latin 'black-banded'

Size

5.0-7.5 mm(1)

Identification

Elytra: Usually yellow or orange with three transverse, generally distinct, undulating orange, red, or (usually) black bands. When bands black, these sometimes expanded and partly to largely confluent, elytra thus sometimes predominantly black with vague to distinct elongate yellow spots. (1)

This species is one of the most variable in the genus in coloration. Continuous intermediates exist between the one extreme in which the elytra are yellow with rather vague orange bands and the other in which the elytra are almost entirely black. The extreme forms are few. (1)

Range

TX-AZ-CO; Mexico(2)

Food

Pinus (Pinaceae)(3)

Works Cited

1.	A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera). By Richard E. White. 1968.

2.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico By Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno

3.	Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occuring in the United States and Canada By Shawn Clark, Douglas LeDoux, Terry Seeno, Edward Riley, Arthur Gilbert, and James Sullivan. 2004.

Contributed by Ron M. on 3 September, 2008 - 2:21am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 July, 2011 - 2:39am

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