Genus Cryptolestes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

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)

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, dvoribird
Last updated 7 February, 2025 - 4:32pm

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