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Tribe Ophryastini

Ophryastes ovipennis Sharp - Ophryastes ovipennis - female Ophryastes - Ophryastes tuberosus Desert beetles - Ophryastes - male - female Weevil - Ophryastes Sapotes longipilis Van Dyke - Sapotes longipilis Ophryastes sordidus LeConte - Ophryastes sordidus Large desert weevil - Ophryastes Ophryastes
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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Ophryastini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Ophryastini Lacordaire 1863
Numbers
2 genera with 37 spp. in our area(2) + a dozen more in Mexico(3)
Range
w. N. America(2)
Habitat
Arid(2)
Remarks
Adults are flightless(2)
Works Cited
1.Curculionidae tribe Ophryastini of North America (Coleoptera)
Kissinger D.G. 1970. Taxonomic Publications (South Lancaster, Mass). v+238 pp.
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.Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies...
O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.