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Arizonensis group

Small Casebearer - Cryptocephalus nigrocinctus Cryptocephalus sanguinicollis nigerrimus Crotch - Cryptocephalus sanguinicollis Cryptocephalus nigrocinctus Suffrian - Cryptocephalus nigrocinctus Small black beetle - Cryptocephalus nigrocinctus unknown chrysomelid - Cryptocephalus nanus Cryptocephalus? - Cryptocephalus sanguinicollis Cryptocephalus arizonensis Schaeffer - Cryptocephalus arizonensis Tiny beetle - Cryptocephalus nigrocinctus
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
Numbers
5 spp. (arizonensis, nanus, nigrocinctus, sanguinicollis, pallidicinctus)(1)
Range
se. & w. NA(1)(2)
1 eastern sp. (C. nanus, WV-FL-MS-AR)
3 western spp.: C. sanguinicollis (BC-MT-CA; Mexico), C. arizonensis (AZ to TX), and C. pallidicinctus (CA)
C. nigrocinctus introduced to FL from Puerto Rico (Thomas et al. 1999)
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 v belov on 26 January, 2010 - 9:33am
Additional contributions by Edward Ruden
Last updated 24 March, 2019 - 7:27pm

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