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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Cryptamorpha

Cryptamorpha desjardinsii (Guérin-Méneville) - Cryptamorpha desjardinsii Cryptamorpha desjardinsii Cryptamorpha desjardinsii Cryptamorpha desjardinsii Silvanidae - Cryptamorpha desjardinsii Cryptamorpha desjardinsii
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 (Cucujid series)
Family Silvanidae (Silvanid Flat Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Brontinae
Tribe Telephanini
Genus Cryptamorpha
Explanation of Names
Cryptamorpha Wollaston 1854
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area, 27 spp. worldwide(1)(2)
Range
Oriental & Australasian, with one adventive species in our area (FL-AL)(1)(2)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Thomas M.C. (-2011) A preliminary checklist of the flat bark beetles of the world