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Species Cryptocephalus cribripennis

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

*Invaluable*

"A total of 71 species and 33 subspecies are included herein. Three species are newly synonymized, and three species are revalidated. Twelve new species and six new subspecies are described."

"This paper is based almost entirely on the specimens in the U.S. national Museum, a total of over 4,600 individuals; this series includes all but one (pallidicinctus Fall) of the North American species described previous to 1966."

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

Descriptions of eight new Cryptocephali, captured near St. John's Bluff, E. Florida by Edward Doubleday, Esq.
By Newman, E.
The Magazine of Natural History 4: 249-250., 1840
Full Text (in Latin) - BHL

Newman, E. 1840. Descriptions of eight new Cryptocephali, captured near St. John's Bluff, E. Florida by Edward Doubleday, Esq. The Magazine of Natural History 4: 249-250.

The Chrysomelidae of Florida. Florida Entomologist, 7(4): 49-57.
By Blatchley, W.S.
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Blatchley, W.S. (1924). The Chrysomelidae of Florida. Florida Entomologist, 7(4): 49-57.

Short studies in the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera).
By Schaeffer, C.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 41: 296-325., 1933
Full Text - BHL

Schaeffer, C. 1933. Short studies in the Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 41: 296-325.

Most of the following notes, descriptions, etc., and others, published elsewhere, have been written at various times in the past years while devoting some of my little spare time to the study and investigation of Chrysomelidae.

With the transfer of the museum’s collections to Washington some of the type specimens from which the descriptions were drawn are

An annotated checklist of Missouri leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).
By Riley, E.G. & W.R. Enns.
Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science 13: 53–83., 1979
Riley, E.G. & W.R. Enns. 1979. An annotated checklist of Missouri leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science 13: 53–83.

Doris Holmes Blake - Necrolog with appendix: Bibliography to her works.
By Froeschner, R.C., Froeschner, E.M.L. & Cartwright, O.L.
Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash., 83(3): 544 - 564, 1981
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Useful source; hopefully, any article published in Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. is available online.

New species of Galerucinae and Alticinae with notes on other species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
By J. A. Wilcox
The Ohio Journal of Science 53(1): 51-58, 1953

Notes on the distribution and biology of some Florida leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae).
By Flowers, R.W., D.G. Furth and M.C. Thomas.
The Coleopterists Bulletin 48(1): 79-89., 1994
JSTOR

Flowers, R.W., D.G. Furth and M.C. Thomas. 1994. Notes on the distribution and biology of some Florida leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 48(1): 79-89.

Abstract

New host plant associations and distribution data are given for 45 species of Florida Chrysomelidae. Eleven species or subspecies are newly recorded from the state: Babia quadriguttata (Olivier), Cryptocephalus mutabilis Melsheimer, Diachus chlorizans (Suffrian), Brachypnoea puncticollis (Say) [new combination]; Brachypnoea clypealis (Horn) [new combination], Glyptoscelis albicans Baly, Metachroma zayasi Blake, Microtheca picea (Guerin), Disonycha alternata (Illiger), Disonycha d.

 
 
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