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Genus Cryptolestes

Cryptolestes punctatus - female orange beetle - Cryptolestes Odd Antennæ. - Cryptolestes uncicornis Unknown Beetle - Cryptolestes Cryptolestes? - Cryptolestes Laemophloeidae, Cryptolestes? - Cryptolestes Cryptolestes? - Cryptolestes Laemophloeidae - Cryptolestes
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Laemophloeidae (Lined Flat Bark Beetles)
Genus Cryptolestes
Explanation of Names
Cryptolestes Ganglbauer 1899
'hidden robber'
Numbers
11 spp. in our area (about a half are adventive)(1), ~50 total(2)
Identification
key to spp. in (3)
habitus photos of all our spp. in (4)
"With Cryptolestes, you really need to examine genitalia (of either sex) to be sure [of species]. Some Leptophloeus are superficially very similar to the Cryptolestes spp. near ferrugineus and are distinguishable by the relative width of the intercoxal process of the first visible abdominal ventrite (narrow in Leptophloeus, broader in Cryptolestes)." ‒M.C. Thomas, pers. comm. to =v= 9.x.2012
Range
worldwide (several stored product spp. are cosmopolitan)(2)
Print References
(5)