Cryptolestes Ganglbauer 1899
Creators: name: Brazil, A new species and new records of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Laemophloeidae) from
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Laemophloeidae
Cryptolestes

description: The key to the New World species of Cryptolestes
is modified from Thomas (2002a) to include C. robinclarkei, C. thomasi and C. pederneirensis sp. nov. Figures from the corresponding couplets from that paper can be consulted when necessary.
1. Pronotum with a secondary line between sublateral line and lateral margin (may be partially effaced or complete) (Figure 2 (a)) ............................................................... 2
- Pronotum without a secondary line between sublateral line and lateral margin .................................................................................................... 11 (in Thomas 2002a)
2(1). Body broad; secondary sublateral line of pronotum complete from base to apex (males unknown) (Brazil) ....................................................................................................... 2A
- Body slender; secondary sublateral line of pronotum effaced at posterior half.......................................................................................................................................................3
2A(2). Body very stout, convex; club antennomeres short, rounded, almost as wide as long; secondary line of pronotum equidistant from sublateral line and lateral margin .............................................................................................. C. obesus Thomas, 2002a
- Body strongly flattened dorsoventrally; club antennomeres elongate, narrow, distinctly longer than wide; secondary line of pronotum closer to sublateral line than lateral margin ........................................................... C. robinclarkei, Thomas, 2002b
3(2). Punctation of head and pronotum sparse, punctures smaller than an eye facet and separated by 2–6 diameters, surface between punctures generally smooth and glossy ....................................................................................................................................... 4
- Punctation of head and pronotum coarse, punctures as large as or larger than an eye facet, separated by 1–2 diameters, surface between punctures generally microreticulate ....................................................................................... 6 (in Thomas 2002a)
4(3). Secondary line distinctly angulate at about basal third; male antennal scape unarmed (Mexico and Honduras) .................. .................. C. turnbowi Thomas, 2002a
- Secondary line not angulate; other characters not as above (mostly South America) ....................................................................................................................................... 4A
4A(4). Body surface with pubescence inconspicuous; male and female antennal scape small, subequal or shorter than antennomeres 2–4 combined ............................. 4B
- Body surface covered by conspicuous, decumbent pubescence; male antennal scape elongate, much longer than antennomeres 2–4 combined ............................... ........................................................................ C. pederneirensis sp. nov. [female unknown]
4B(4A). Antennal scape untoothed. ................................................ C. ampiyacus Thomas, 1988
- Male and female or only male antennal scape toothed ............................................. 5
5(4B). Secondary line diverging from sublateral line from apex to base, where it joins at the posterior angle; pronotum abruptly declivous laterad secondary line; male antennal scape with an external tooth ..................................................................................... .............................................................. C. trinidadensis Thomas, 1988 [female unknown]
- Secondary line parallel to sublateral line; pronotum not abruptly declivous laterad sublateral line; male and female antennal scape with a ventrointernal tooth ..................................... ..................................... C. thomasi; Hauth and Bremer, 2020
description: Published as part of Brazil, A new species and new records of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Laemophloeidae) from, 2023, A new species and new records of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Laemophloeidae) from Brazil, pp. 2065-2074 in Journal of Natural History 56 (45 - 48) on pages 2065-2074, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2157775, http://zenodo.org/record/7618635