Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Cryptolepidus

Weevil on Burr Sage - Cryptolepidus Weevil on Burr Sage - Cryptolepidus Cryptolepidus leechi (Ting) - Cryptolepidus leechi Cryptolepidus leechi (Ting) - Cryptolepidus leechi Weevil - Cryptolepidus Weevil - Cryptolepidus Small Ophryastes maybe? - Cryptolepidus cazieri Small Ophryastes maybe? - Cryptolepidus cazieri
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Geonemini
Genus Cryptolepidus
Explanation of Names
Cryptolepidus Van Dyke 1936
Numbers
7 spp. in our area(1)
Range
sw. US (NV‒AZ‒CA)(1)
Habitat
adults associated with sagebrush (Artemisia, Asteraceae) and other shrubs(1)
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.