Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850

Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 451-495 : 467

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17895183

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scientific name

Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850
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Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850 View in CoL

Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850: 497 View in CoL ; 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 View FIGURES 14–19 ); 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).

DZUP

Universidade Federal do Parana, Colecao de Entomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Loc

Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850

Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura 2025
2025
Loc

Cryptognatha

Gordon, R. D. 1987: 26
Gordon, R. D. 1971: 183
Blackwelder, R. E. 1945: 449
Korschefsky, R. 1931: 218
Horn, G. H. 1895: 82
Chapuis, F. 1876: 236
Crotch, G. R. 1874: 206
Mulsant, E. 1850: 497
1850
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