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Genus Alocentron

Alocentron attenuatum (Smith) - Alocentron attenuatum Alocentron attenuatum (Smith) - Alocentron attenuatum Apioninae, frontal-lateral - Alocentron Apioninae, lateral - Alocentron Apioninae, dorsal - Alocentron
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea
Family Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily Apioninae (Pear-shaped Weevils)
Tribe Aspidapiini
Genus Alocentron
Explanation of Names
Alocentron Schilsky 1901
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1), all in the subg. Nearctalox Alonso-Zarazaga 1990 (the other subgenus in Eurasia)(2)
Range
Holarctic(2); in our area, widespread(1)
Food
hosts: Malvaceae per(1) but A. attenuatum on Salix exigua per(3)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
3.Weevils of Kansas - A Manual for Identification
Glenn Arthur Salsbury. 2000. Private/Self.