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Genus Cryptorhopalum

Carpet Beetle - Cryptorhopalum triste Cryptorhopalum ruficorne LeConte - Cryptorhopalum ruficorne Cryptorhopalum triste-group - Cryptorhopalum triste Cryptorhopalum sp., ventral - Cryptorhopalum obesulum carpet beetle - Cryptorhopalum triste Cryptorhopalum? - Cryptorhopalum Del Puerto.J.2021.04 - Cryptorhopalum Cryptorhopalum floridanum - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Dermestidae (Carpet Beetles)
Subfamily Megatominae
Tribe Megatomini
Genus Cryptorhopalum
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1), additional info in (2)
Explanation of Names
Cryptorhopalum Guérin 1838
'hidden club'
Numbers
25 spp. in our area(3), ~180 total(4)
not yet in the guide:
C. anthrenoides Casey · AZ
C. balteatum LeConte · CA
C. brooksi Beal · AZ‒CO
C. distichia Beal · AZ
C. filitarse Casey · AZ‒CA
C. floridanum Casey · NC‒TX‒CA
C. focale Beal · FL
C. fusculum LeConte · TX‒CA
C. haplotes Beal · CA
C. poorei Beal97 · AZ
C. schneppi Háva · FL
C. quadripunctatum Guérin-Méneville · CA [adv.]
C. rubidum Beal · AZ‒CA
C. sapindi Beal · AZ
C. uteanum Casey916 · w.NA to SD‒CO‒TX
C. vernale Beal · AZ‒NM
C. woolfi Beal · AZ
Range
Canada to Argentina, mostly neotropical; in our area, by far more diverse in the southwest(4)
Remarks
our only representative of the subtribe Cryptorhopalina Pierce 1960 that contains one more (monotypic) genus(4)
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic revision of the Nearctic species of Cryptorhopalum
R. S. Beal, Jr. 1985. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 111: 171-221.
2.Taxonomic notes and distributional data on Nearctic species of Cryptorhopalum (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) w/ descrip. of a n. sp.
Beal, R.S. 1995. Entomological News 106(4): 169-177.
3.World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera)
Jiří Háva. 2003. Studie a zprávy Oblastního Muzea Praha-východ, Brandýs n. Labem 2003 Supplementum 1.
4.Háva J. (2023) World catalogue of the Dermestidae