Cryptocephalus badius Suffrian, 1852

General description: 

Rusty brown body; the elytra with a shortened yellow root band and four equal spots (1,2,1); coarse puncture-stripes with flatly curved, smooth interspaces. [Translated from the original German in Suffrian, 1858].

Diagnostic description: 

Pronotum: Orange to deep red, often with lateral and apical margins partly to mostly yellow; punctation usually dual, small punctures sometimes evidently absent, large punctures small to minute. Elytra: Each elytron orange to deep red and with yellow as follows: at base from behind scutellum laterally to fifth interval, usually continuous, narrowed, or interrupted at second interval and narrowed at fourth interval; at middle of side from fifth interval to lateral margin; near apex on third, fourth, and seventh intervals; at apex. With seven rows of punctures and a short series behind humerus, fifth and sixth rows interrupted at middle and joining behind middle, row sometimes confused beyond junction; punctures as usual to larger than usual, finer apically as usual; inner and outer rows distinct at apex and clearly meeting. Prosternum: Evenly arcuate and somewhat produced in both sexes. Length: 3.6 to 4.6 mm. (White, 1968: 33-4).

Distribution: 

Pennsylvania, brought by Dr. Schaum (Museum Germar). [Translated from Suffrian, 1858]

USA: PA, MD, DE, VA, WV, KY, TN, FL, MS, KS, OK (White, 1968).

Habitat: 

"A single specimen was taken on cotton. Wilcox (1954, p. 385) records it as beaten from walnut" (White, 1968).

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