Cryptocephalinae

Cryptocephalinae
Cryptocephalus nitidus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
(unranked): Camptosomata
Subfamily: Cryptocephalinae
Gyllenhaal, 1813
Tribes

Clytrini
Cryptocephalini
Fulcidacini

The Cryptocephalinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata. The cases are made from the feces of larvae, passed from one instar to the next, and ultimately serves as a pupation chamber.[1]

The tribes Fulcidacini and Clytrini were formerly considered subfamilies of their own, and are presently treated only as tribes.[2] Species in at least 14 genera of Clytrini and Cryptocephalini are myrmecophilous, living with ants.[3] Most species exhibit polyphagy but there are patterns of constraints with certain plant lineages.[4]

  • Exema, fecal case
    Exema, fecal case
  • Exema, larva
    Exema, larva
  • Neochlamisus, fecal case
    Neochlamisus, fecal case
  • Neochlamisus, larva removed from larval fecal case
    Neochlamisus, larva removed from larval fecal case
  1. ^ Chaboo, C.S., C.G. Brown, & D.J. Funk. 2008. Faecal case architecture in the gibbosus species group of Neochlamisus Karren, 1972 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Chlamisini). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152:315–335.
  2. ^ Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Davies, A.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Lawrence, J.; Lyal, C.; Newton, A.; Reid, C.; Schmitt, M.; Ślipiński, A.; Smith, A. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
  3. ^ Agrain F.A., M. Buffington, C.S. Chaboo, M.L. Chamorro, & M.E. Schöller. 2015. Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life histories of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). ZooKeys 547:133–164.
  4. ^ Agrain, F.A., B. Vento, V. Flinte, C.A.M. Reid, & C.S. Chaboo. 2024. Global macroecological patterns in host-plant associations of Cryptocephalinae case-bearer leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 20:1-20.https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae041