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Taxonomy
Cryptocephalus mutabilis Melsheimer, 1847
Nomenclature
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Subtribe: Cryptocephalina
Species:
Cryptocephalus mutabilis Melsheimer, 1847
SUMMARY
Listed under C. dispersus: Red brown body; front and side rims along with two hind spots on the clearly punctured pronotum, yellow; the elytra yellow; a large cross-spot and a number the small surrounding spots, red brown; flat, finely wrinkled interspaces.
Listed under C. discoideus: Black on top, yellow brown underneath; front and side rims of the finely punctured pronotum, yellow; the elytra yellow; a large, lobed mid spot and a number of its small surrounding spots, black; smoothly curved, glossy interspaces.
[Translated from the original German in Suffrian, 1858].