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Subfamily Cryptarchinae

Representative Images

4-spotted Sap Beetle - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Glischrochilus siepmanni? - Glischrochilus siepmanni Nitidulid - Cryptarcha strigatula Glischrochilus quadrisignatus? - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Belden-J.2021.106 - Cryptarcha Potential dark form of Glischrochilus moratus - Glischrochilus moratus Glischrochilus quadrisignatus? - Glischrochilus quadrisignatus Glischrochilus sp.? - Glischrochilus fasciatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cucujoidea
No Taxon (Nitidulid series)
Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)
Subfamily Cryptarchinae

Explanation of Names

Cryptarchinae C.G. Thomson 1859

Numbers

15 genera in 4 tribes worldwide; all our genera are in the tribe Cryptarchini that contains 8 genera worldwide(1)

Works Cited

1.A current generic classification of sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae)
Kirejtshuk A.G. 2008. Zoosystematica Rossica 17: 107-122.
Contributed by v belov on 13 November, 2009 - 9:08am
Last updated 10 February, 2015 - 6:00pm

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