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Species Psomus armatus

Psomus armatus (Dietz) - Psomus armatus Snout Beetle - Psomus armatus Snout Beetle - Psomus armatus Snout Beetle - Psomus armatus Snout Beetle - Psomus armatus weevil - Psomus armatus
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 Conoderinae
Tribe Lechriopini
Genus Psomus
Species armatus (Psomus armatus)
Explanation of Names
Psomus armatus (Dietz 1891)
Range
ne. US & se. Canada(1)
Food
host: white ash (Fraxinus americanus, Oleaceae)(1)
Remarks
at high risk of endangerment due to the EAB (2)
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.Ecological impacts of the emerald ash borer. Pp. 15-62. In: R.G. Van Driesche (ed.), Biology and Control of Emerald Ash Borer.
Wagner, D.L. and K. Todd. 2015. USDA Technical Bulletin FHTET-2014-09. Morgantown, WV.