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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 » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Case-bearing Leaf Beetles (Cryptocephalinae) » Cryptocephalini » Cryptocephalina » Cryptocephalus » Tinctus group (Cryptocephalus Tinctus group) » Cryptocephalus tinctus
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Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus tinctus
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Leaf Beetle - Cryptocephalus tinctus
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 30, 2005
Size: 3mm
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Contributed by tom murray on 1 October, 2005 - 6:02pm
Last updated 30 June, 2009 - 11:39pm

Looks good
Moved from Cryptocephalini.
… tom murray, 22 April, 2007 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

Cryptocephalus tinctus
Cryptocephalus becuase of pronotum, which is eqaully wide at both ends in Pachybrachis. This one is narrowed towrds the front. I think it is C. tinctus, becuase it looks very much like the picture of Cryptocephalus tinctus from Cedar Creek.
http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/024107025ap.html
… Rob Westerduijn, 22 April, 2007 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

nr. Pachybrachis
Am moving to Cryptocephalinae...
… Mike Quinn, 11 January, 2006 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

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