Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
Synonym: Ips Latreille 1802 [replaced name]
Full reference: W. Kirby. 1837. The insects. Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America: Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions, under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N 4:1-325
Parent taxon: Cryptophaginae according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky 2021
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Latreille 1802, Leschen 1996, Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2011, Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2017, Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2020, Peris et al. 2017 and Webster 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Albocryptophagus Antherophagus Cryptophagus Ennoticus Henoticus Micrambe Microticus Pteryngium Spaniophagus Telmatophilus Turgaphagites
Type: Kryptophagus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Washington, Wisconsin)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (3), United States (6: Colorado, Wyoming)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1)
Total: 24 collections including 29 occurrences