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Species Magdalis pandura

Magdalis pandura (Say) - Magdalis pandura Curculionidae, dorsal - Magdalis pandura Curculionidae, lateral - Magdalis pandura Weevil - Magdalis pandura - male Magdalis - Magdalis pandura - female Curculionidae, frontal - Magdalis pandura Otiorhynchus species? - Magdalis pandura Magdalis pandura
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 Mesoptiliinae
Tribe Magdalidini (Wedge-shaped Bark Weevils)
Genus Magdalis
Species pandura (Magdalis pandura)
Explanation of Names
Magdalis pandura (Say 1831)
pandura L. 'musical instrument with three strings'(1) (refers to body outline)
Size
2.5-3.0 mm(2)
Range
NF-MB to GA-TX(2)(3)
Life Cycle
bread from Juglans nigra(2); coll'ed Apr-May on cedar elm (Ulmus crassifolia) in c. TX(4)
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
2.Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae).
Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.
3.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
4.Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat.
Quinn, M.A. 2000. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.