Cryptocephalinae

Cryptocephalinae
Cryptocephalus nitidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Cryptocephalinae
Gyllenhaal, 1813
Tribes

Pachybrachini
Chlamisini
Clytrini
Cryptocephalini

The Cryptocephalinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), and belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles called the Camptosomata.

The tribes Chlamisini and Clytrini were formerly considered subfamilies of their own.

Pachybrachini (Chapius 1874) is considered a tribe [1]

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