Cryptocephalus Geoffroy, 1762

Agrain, Federico A., Chamorro, Maria Lourdes, Cabrera, Nora, Sassi, Davide & Roig-Junent, Sergio, 2017, A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata), ZooKeys 677, pp. 11-88 : 40-41

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scientific name	Cryptocephalus Geoffroy, 1762
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Cryptocephalus Geoffroy, 1762 View in CoL Fig. 21

Cryptocephalus Geoffroy, 1762: 231 (conserved name); Chevrolat 1836: 422; Saunders 1845: 142; Redtenbacher 1845: 118; Gistel 1848: 123; Haldeman 1849: 170; Stål 1857: 61; Chapuis 1874: 184; Jacoby 1880; 42; Baly 1877b: 32; Burmeister 1877: 64; Burlini 1953: 75; Lopatin 1965: 452; White 1968: 24; Blackwelder 1946: 644.

Cryptocephalus Müller, 1764 (subsequent use).

= Physicerus Chevrolat, 1836.

= Strigogophorus Chevrolat, 1836 (nomen nudum).

= Dicenopsis Saunders, 1842.

= Mitocera Saunders, 1842.

= Ochrosopsis Saunders, 1843.

= Anodonta Saunders, 1845, not Lamarck 1799 ( Mollusca).

= Idiocephala Saunders, 1845.

= Ochrosopsus : Saunders, 1845 (error).

= Canthostethus Haldeman, 1849.

= Mecostethus Stål, 1857.

= Euphyma Baly, 1877c.

Type species.

Chrysomela sericea , designated by Latreille 1810: 432.

Diagnosis.

Anteriorly flat head, deeply inserted into the prothorax; eyes reniform; leading edge of prothorax laterally straight; denticles present on posterior margin of pronotum; thorax closely fitted to base of elytra (thus sometimes concealing denticles); anterior margin of intercoxal prosternal process uniformly concave or with medial flange; intercoxal width equal to or greater than width of coxal cavity; ventrite I of male without spines. Rectal apparatus bearing one ventral and two dorsal sclerites.

Distribution.

Worldwide, with over 1700 species ( Chamorro 2014b), with nine species cited for Argentina.

Remarks.

Although a complex subgeneric classification does exist for Palearctic species ( Schöller 2002), new world species including Argentinian, have not yet been assigned to subgenera.

Argentinian species checklist.

1. Cryptocephalus acuminatus Jacoby, 1907 (TUC).

2. Cryptocephalus argentinus Jacoby, 1907 (BAS).

3. Cryptocephalus carbonarius Burmeister, 1877 (BAS).

4. Cryptocephalus fusculus Suffrian, 1863 (BAS).

5. Cryptocephalus incommodus Suffrian, 1863 (BAS).

6. Cryptocephalus misellus Suffrian, 1857 (BAS, CTS).

7. Cryptocephalus tucumanensis Jacoby, 1907 (TUC).

8. Cryptocephalus subaenescens Jacoby, 1907 (TUC).