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Species Cryptocephalus albicans

Cryptocephalus albicans Haldeman - Cryptocephalus albicans

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 (Calidus group)

Species albicans (Cryptocephalus albicans)

Explanation of Names

Cryptocephalus albicans Haldeman 1849

Size

Length 4.8 to 6.3 mm (1)

Identification

Elytra: Light orange or creamy yellow and with dark reddish to black markings. (1)

The six Florida specimens examined by White (1968) have the elytral intervals finely, transversely rugose; this significantly reduces the shininess of the elytra. In two Georgia and three South Carolina specimens, the rugosity is reduced to absent, and the elytra are distinctly shiny. The single Mississippi specimen has the elytra finely, transversely wrinkled and shiny. (1)

Range

Coastal States from MS to FL to SC (2)

Twelve specimens in the USNM from Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia. (1)

Print References

Haldeman, S.S. 1849. Cryptocephalinarum Boreali-Americae diagnoses cum speciebus novis musei Lecontiani. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1: 245-265.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

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

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 7 May, 2009 - 11:10pm
Additional contributions by Edward Ruden
Last updated 25 March, 2019 - 8:48pm

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