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Species Cryptocephalus pallidicinctus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
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 (Arizonensis group)
Species pallidicinctus (Cryptocephalus pallidicinctus)
Explanation of Names
Cryptocephalus pallidicinctus Fall 1932
pallidicinctus (L). 'pale-girdled' (1)
Size
Length 4 mm (2)
Identification
Prothorax orange red, the extreme apical edge pale yellow, the basal edge very narrowly blackish; surface sparsely feebly and very finely punctate. Elytra black, with narrow whitish yellow basal and lateral margin which at apex does not quite reach the sutural angle. (Fall 1932)
Range
CA (3)
Food
Asso. w/ Zygophyllaceae (4)
Remarks
The only described NA species not seen by White while revising the genus(2)
Print References
Fall, H.C. 1932. New species of Cryptocephalus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Psyche, 39(1-2): 21-25.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.A review of the genus Cryptocephalus in America north of Mexico (Chrysomelidae: Coleoptera).
White, R.E. 1968. USNM Bulletin 290. 124 pp.
3.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
4.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.