cryptocephaline

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ultimately translingual Cryptocephalus +‎ -ine

Adjective[edit]

cryptocephaline (not comparable)

  1. (entomology) Of or pertaining to the subfamily Cryptocephalinae or the tribe Cryptocephalini.
    • 2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae[1]:
      I rarely get anything beating Sideroxylon lanuginosum (gum bumelia), but I beat most of the trees that I saw anyway and collected one cryptocephaline chrysomelid and two curculionoids.