Species Rhinoncus bruchoides

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

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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)

Tribe Phytobiini

Genus Rhinoncus

Species bruchoides (Rhinoncus bruchoides)

Explanation of Names

Rhinoncus bruchoides (Herbst 1784)

Size

2.2‒3.1 mm(1)

Range

Holarctic(2), across n.Eurasia(1) and ne.NA (NF‒NS‒QC(3)...

Season

on Polygonum, occasionally on Brassica(2)

Works Cited

1.	Lompe A. (2002-) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet

2.	Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae) Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 pp.

3.	New records of Curculionoidea from Newfoundland and Labrador, with the first records of Orthochaetes setiger (Beck)... Langor D.W., Anderson R.S., Bouchard P., Langor S.D. 2022. Zookeys 1136: 125–162.

Contributed by v belov on 27 March, 2009 - 6:08pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 8 January, 2024 - 4:49pm

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