Cryptocephalus coryli (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Hazel Pot Beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Cryptocephalus coryli (Hazel Pot Beetle)
Genus	Cryptocephalus (a genus of leaf beetles)
Subfamily	CRYPTOCEPHALINAE (a subfamily of leaf beetles)
Family	CHRYSOMELIDAE (leaf and flea beetles)
Superfamily	CHRYSOMELOIDEA (leaf, longhorn and seed beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Cryptocephalus coryli is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Chrysomelidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds)	2006	A Coleopterist’s handbook	The Amateur Entomolgist, 11, Fourth Edition edition, 439pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
	Cox, M.L.	2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications

Cryptocephalus coryli (Hazel Pot Beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Cryptocephalus
(a genus of leaf beetles)

CRYPTOCEPHALINAE
(a subfamily of leaf beetles)

CHRYSOMELIDAE
(leaf and flea beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cryptocephalus coryli (Hazel Pot Beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 24 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Cryptocephalus coryli (Hazel Pot Beetle)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Cryptocephalus coryli is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)