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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Cucujid series » Lined Flat Bark Beetles (Laemophloeidae) » Cryptolestes

Genus Cryptolestes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited
Beetle - Cryptolestes ferrugineus tiny nitidulid? - Cryptolestes orange beetle - Cryptolestes Coleoptera - Cryptolestes cornutus Coleoptera - Cryptolestes cornutus Latridiidae: Cryptolestes sp.? - Cryptolestes Loomis2 J05 - Cryptolestes Modesto-0BG.J.1965.01 - Cryptolestes ferrugineus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea (Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles)
No Taxon (Cucujid series)
Family Laemophloeidae (Lined Flat Bark Beetles)
Genus Cryptolestes
Explanation of Names
Cryptolestes Ganglbauer 1899
Numbers
11 spp. in our area (about a half are adventive)(1), ~50 spp. worldwide(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); in our area, mostly e. US(1)
Print References
(5)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Thomas M.C. (-2011) A preliminary checklist of the flat bark beetles of the world
3.A revision of the New World species of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Cucujidae: Laemophloeinae)
M. Thomas. 1988. Insecta Mundi, 2: 43-65.
4.Thomas M.C. (2003) Laemophloeidae of Florida
5.The flat bark beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Silvanidae, Passandridae, Laemophloeidae)
Thomas M.C. 1993. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas 15: viii+93 pp.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 13 November, 2007 - 9:38pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 9 November, 2012 - 11:35am

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