Cryptocephalus albicans Haldeman, 1849

Diagnostic description: 

Pronotum: Usually light orange with disk and large basal triangular area each side rather reddish, sometimes dull creamy yellow throughout; punctation dual, larger punctures minute to small. Elytra: Light orange or creamy yellow and with dark reddish to black markings. Markings as follows: first stria usually dark at base to dark throughout; second interval usually vaguely darkened at base; second stria black to (and sometimes beyond) middle of elytra; third stria sometimes dark at base; fourth stria usually dark at apex; at side with complete black vitta from humerus to apex of seventh interval, vitta sometimes reduced apically. With eight (sometimes apparently nine) rows of punctures, sixth and seventh (or, when nine rows, sixth, seventh, and eighth) rows confused; punctures as large and dense as usual, distinctly smaller at elytral apex; inner and outer rows distinct and clearly meeting at apex.Prosternum: Anterior margin broadly, not strongly lobed in female; feebly lobed in male. Length: 4.8 to 6.3 mm. (White, 1968: 26).

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith