Genus Tachygonus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Tachygonus lecontei again - Tachygonus lecontei

Mating pair - Tachygonus lecontei - male - female

Tachygonus spinipes Casey - Tachygonus lecontei

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 Curculioninae

Tribe Rhamphini (Flea Weevils)

Genus Tachygonus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

reviewed in (1); used to be treated in subfam. Conoderinae, e.g. in(2)(3)

Explanation of Names

Tachygonus Guérin-Ménéville 1833

Numbers

5 spp. in our area(2)

NB: T. spinipes, T. gracilipes, T. minutus, and T. nigrescens, synonymized by Hespenheide (1992), are listed as valid in O'Brien's 1997 catalog(4) that was prepared before Hespenheide's revision and not updated to reflect the synonymy. --H. Hespenheide, pers.comm. to =v= 9.viii.2011)

Range

e. NA west to CO-TX-AZ(2)

Food

larvae mine leaves of various deciduous trees, incl. Quercus, Robinia, Ulmus, etc.(4)

Remarks

our only representative of the subtribe Tachygonina Lacordaire 1865(5)

Works Cited

1.	A review of the genus Tachygonus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) north of Mexico Hespenheide H.A. 1992. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 94: 1-11.

2.	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.

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

4.	A catalog of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Curculionidae: Acicnemidinae, Cossoninae, Rhytirrhininae, Molytinae... O'Brien C.W. 1997. USDA Agric. handbook 529-143g. 49 pp.

5.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 7 March, 2008 - 10:54pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 May, 2023 - 6:10pm

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