The Cryptocephalini are a tribe within the leaf beetle subfamily Cryptocephalinae. As the other Cryptocephalinae, they belong to the group of case-bearing leaf beetles known as Camptosomata. Some species are myrmecophilous.Agrain F.A., M. Buffington, C.S. Chaboo, M.L. Chamorro, & M.E. Schöller. 2015. Leaf beetles are ant-nest beetles: the curious life histories of the juvenile stages of case-bearers (Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae). ZooKeys 547: 133–164.
Selected genera Aporocera Saunders, 1842 Bassareus Haldeman, 1849 Cadmus Erichson, 1842 Coenobius Suffrian, 1857 Cryptocephalus Chapuis, 1875 Diachus J.L.LeConte, 1880 Ditropidus Erichson, 1842 Lexiphanes Gistel, 1836 Loxopleurus Suffrian, 1859 Pycnophthalma Maulik, 1929 Triachus J.L.LeConte, 1880
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