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Genus Trichapion

weevil - Trichapion rostrum Trichapion Apioninae? - Trichapion porcatum Trichapion commodum (Fall) - Trichapion commodum Trichapion leporinum (Salsbury) - Trichapion leporinum Lupine Apioninae - Trichapion Brentidae Trichapion roseae - pear-shaped weevil? - Trichapion Brentidae, Wild Indigo Weevil, pupa, another one, teneral - Trichapion rostrum
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 Oxystomatini
Subtribe Trichapiina
Genus Trichapion
Explanation of Names
Trichapion Wagner 1912
Numbers
45 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
see (2)
Range
Nearctic and Neotropical(3); widespread in NA(1)
Food
hosts: mostly Fabaceae and Asteraceae(1)
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 revision of the Apion subgenus Trichapion Wagner in the New World (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Kissinger D.G. 1959. Proc. USNM 110: 247‒389.
3.A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 1 February, 2009 - 7:54am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 October, 2023 - 8:09pm

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