Species Sphenophorus pontederiae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited

Sphenophorus pontederiae Chittenden - Sphenophorus pontederiae

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 Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Dryophthorinae

Tribe Rhynchophorini

Subtribe Sphenophorina

Genus Sphenophorus (Billbugs)

Species pontederiae (Sphenophorus pontederiae)

Explanation of Names

Sphenophorus pontederiae Chittenden 1905

Size

8-11 mm(1)

Range

e. US (MA-FL to IL-TX)(1)

Food

host: pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata, Pontederiaceae)(1)

Works Cited

1.	Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae). Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 27 January, 2015 - 11:25am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 11 January, 2017 - 11:59am

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