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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 » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Cryptocephalini » Cryptocephalina » Cryptocephalus » Venustus group (Cryptocephalus Venustus group) » Cryptocephalus venustus

Species Cryptocephalus venustus

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

Cryptocephalus venustus Fabricius - Cryptocephalus venustus

8033136 Calligrapha - Cryptocephalus venustus

Case-bearing Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus venustus

On silky prairie clover - Cryptocephalus venustus

Case-bearing Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus venustus - Cryptocephalus venustus

Cryptocephalus venustus? - Cryptocephalus venustus

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 Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Cryptocephalinae (Case-bearing Leaf Beetles)

Tribe Cryptocephalini

Subtribe Cryptocephalina

Genus Cryptocephalus

No Taxon (Venustus group)

Species venustus (Cryptocephalus venustus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cryptocephalus simplex Haldeman 1849

color forms treated as subspecies in (1) have been synonymized(2)(3)

Explanation of Names

Cryptocephalus venustus Fabricius 1787

venustus 'pretty'

Size

5.3-6.1 mm(2)

Identification

Color highly variable. The pronotum is not swollen as in C. gibbosus and the anterior margin of prosternum is produced into a spine-like lobe in the male and into a somewhat less pointed lobe in the female

Range

QC-FL to AB-NM [map](3)(4)

Food

Polyphagous(5)

Works Cited

1.	A review of the genus Cryptocephalus in America north of Mexico (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera). White, R.E. 1968. USNM Bulletin 290. 124 pp.

2.	The leaf beetles of Alabama Edward Balsbaugh and Kirby Hays. 1972. Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University.

3.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 July, 2008 - 11:18pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 4 September, 2021 - 12:38pm

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