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Genus Trachyphloeus

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 Trachyphloeini
Genus Trachyphloeus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
recently found polyphyletic(1) and split into several genera, with spp. recorded in NA transferred as follows:
T. aristatus see Cathormiocerus aristatus
T. asperatus see Cathormiocerus spinosus
T. bifoveolatus see Romualdius scaber
T. curvipes see Cathormiocerus curvipes
Explanation of Names
Trachyphloeus Germar 1817
Numbers
5 spp. of "Trachyphloeus" in our area, all adventive(2), but none of them in Trachyphloeus as currently defined(1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the palearctic supraspecific taxa of the tribe Trachyphloeini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae).
Borovec, Roman. 2009. Klapalekiana 45: 1-97.
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.