Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
(10-spotted Pot Beetle)

Interactions where Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
adult		adult may be found on			Alnus	alders	Fagales: Betulaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Betulaceae/Alnus/	Alnus	alders							(5-8)
adult		adult grazes on leaf			Betula pubescens	Downy Birch	Fagales: Betulaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Betulaceae/Betula pubescens/	Betula pubescens	downy birch			leaf				(5-8)
adult		adult grazes on leaf			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows			leaf				(5-8)
larva		larva grazes in mobile case on leaf			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows			leaf		Sole
larva		larva grazes in mobile case on fallen, old leaf			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow		fallen, old	leaf			Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
larva		larva grazes in mobile case on fallen, old petiole			Salix alba	White Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix alba/	Salix alba	white willow		fallen, old	petiole			Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced
adult		adult grazes on leaf			Salix aurita	Eared Willow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix aurita/	Salix aurita	eared willow			leaf				(5-8)
adult		adult grazes on leaf			Salix cinerea	Grey Willow, Common Sallow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix cinerea/	Salix cinerea	grey willow, common sallow			leaf			Indoors, in greenhouse, captivity, culture or experimentally induced	(5-8)
adult		adult may be found on			Salix cinerea	Grey Willow, Common Sallow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Plant / resting place / on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix cinerea/	Salix cinerea	grey willow, common sallow							(5-8)
larva		larva grazes in mobile case on fallen, old leaf			Salix cinerea	Grey Willow, Common Sallow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix cinerea/	Salix cinerea	grey willow, common sallow		fallen, old	leaf
larva		larva grazes in mobile case on fallen, old petiole			Salix cinerea	Grey Willow, Common Sallow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix cinerea/	Salix cinerea	grey willow, common sallow		fallen, old	petiole
larva		larva grazes in mobile case on live? leaf			Salix cinerea	Grey Willow, Common Sallow	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				larva	Foodplant / mobile cased feeder			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix cinerea/	Salix cinerea	grey willow, common sallow		live?	leaf
adult		adult grazes on leaf			[Salix (dwarf species)]	dwarf willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Cox, M.L., 2007	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Chrysomelidae/Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus/	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus	10-spotted pot beetle				adult	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix (dwarf species)/	Salix (dwarf species)	dwarf willows			leaf				(5-8)

Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (10-spotted Pot Beetle) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (10-spotted Pot Beetle) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

CHRYSOMELIDAE
(leaf and flea beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Cox, M.L., 2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (10-spotted 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)
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 decemmaculatus is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Chrysomelidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (10-spotted Pot Beetle)

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 decemmaculatus (10-spotted 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)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Cryptocephalus decemmaculatus (10-spotted Pot Beetle):

Cryptocephalus
(a genus of leaf beetles)

CRYPTOCEPHALINAE
(a subfamily of leaf beetles)

CHRYSOMELIDAE
(leaf and flea beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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