Cryptorhopalina

subtribe nomen nudum
Pierce, 1960 [p. 46]
Recognized as: Trogodermina (subtribe)
Citations & References (4)
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Pierce W.D. (1960). Fossil arthropods of California. 23. Silicified insects in Miocene nodules from the Calico Mountains. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 59(1): 40-49.
Original Description
p. 46
Zhou Y.L., Nicholls J.A., Liu Z.H., Hartley D., Szito A., Ślipiński A., Zwick A. (2022). Molecular Phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) Reveals the Polyphyletic Nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the Taxonomic Placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 2.
Cryptorhopalina is treated as synonymous to Trogodermina; Cryptorhopalum represents a clade closely allied to the rest of Trogodermina
Synonymy
p. 18
Bouchard P., Bousquet Y., Davies A.E., Cai C. (2024). On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 1194: 1-981.
Cryptorhopalina is nomen nudum, unavailable under ICZN Art. 13.1; child genera should belong to Trogodermina as the only available closest taxon and since Cryptorhopalina was considered synonymous in Zhou et al. (2022)
Nomenclatural Act
p. 849
Háva J. (2025). World Catalogue of the Dermestidae (Coleoptera). Private Entomological Laboratory and Collection, Únětice/Praha, 368 pp.
as Cryptorhopalina
p. 17

Type genus

Cryptorhopalum Guérin-Méneville, 1838 [p. 42]

Taxon details

iNaturalist Gallery (Cryptorhopalina)

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