Cryptognatha Mulsant 1850
Description
Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850
Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850: 497; Crotch, 1874: 206; Chapuis, 1876: 236; Horn, 1895: 82; Korschefsky, 1931: 218; Blackwelder, 1945: 449; Gordon, 1971a: 183; 1987: 26; González et al., 2019: 4.
Type species: Cryptognatha auriculata Mulsant, 1850; by subsequent designation of Crotch (1874).
Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Rio Grande do Norte; Pernambuco; Bahia; Alagoas; Sergipe.
Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Cryptognatha amabilis Gorham, 1897; Cryptognatha auriculata Mulsant, 1850 [new record for Brazil] (Fig. 19); Cryptognatha celia González & Hanley, 2019; Cryptognatha reedi Crotch, 1874; Cryptognatha shelia González & Hanley, 2019.
Material examined. Cryptognatha auriculata: “ Sergipe – AJU\ I-II/ 1983\ J.M.S. Ferreira col.” [handwritten white label] “ Cryptognatha / auriculata / Mulsant, 1850 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 1 ex. [DZUP 289974]; “ Sergipe – AJU\ I-II/ 1983\ J.M.S. Ferreira col.” [handwritten white label] “ Cryptognatha / sp./ det. R.Gordon 85” [partially handwritten white label] “ Cryptognatha / auriculata / Mulsant, 1850 / J. Duarte-de-Mélo det. 2023” [white label] 2 ex. [DZUP 289973].
Comments. The genus Cryptognatha has now twelve species occurring in Brazil, with C. auriculata being the fifth species recorded for NE Brazil (González et al. 2019).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Mulsant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Cryptognatha
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850 sec. Duarte-De-Mélo, Almeida & Lima, 2025
References
- Mulsant, E. (1850) Species des Coleopteres trimeres securipalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, Lyon, 2 (2), 1-1104. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8953
- Crotch, G. R. (1874) A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae. E. W. Janson, London, xv + 311 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8975
- Chapuis, F. (1876) Famille des Erotyliens, des Endomychides et des Coccinellides. In: Lacordaire, J. T. & Chapuis, F. (Eds.), Histoire naturelle des insects, Genera des coleopteres, ou expose methodique et critique de tous les genres proposes jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Tome XII. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, pp. 1-265. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8864
- Horn, G. H. (1895) Studies in Coccinellidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 22 (2), 81-114.
- Korschefsky, R. (1931) Pars 118. Coccinellidae. I. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1-225.
- Blackwelder, R. E. (1945) Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 3. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185, i - iv + 343-550. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.185.3
- Gordon, R. D. (1971 a) A generic review of the Cryptognathini, new tribe, with a description of a new genus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana, 26 (12), 181-196.
- Gordon, R. D. (1987) A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 3, 1-46.
- Gonzalez, G., Hanley, G. A. & Gordon, R. D. (2019) South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part XIX: overview of Cryptognathini and systematic revision of South American Cryptognatha Mulsant. Insecta Mundi, 714, 1-32.