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Myctides imberbis
Species
Myctides imberbis
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
Baridinae (Flower Weevils)
Tribe
Madarini
Genus
Myctides
Species
imberbis
(Myctides imberbis)
Explanation of Names
Myctides imberbis
Lea 1906
Range
native to Australia, adventive in our area: so. FL (established)
(
1
)
(
2
)
Food
on Myrtaceae
(
2
)
Remarks
pest of rose apple (
Syzygium jambos
)
(
1
)
(
2
)
; first detected in FL 1976
(
3
)
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 Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
3.
The immigration of insects to Florida, with a tabulation of records published since 1970
J.H. Frank, E.D. McCoy. 1992. Florida Entomol. 75: 1-28.
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 9 June, 2011 - 9:09am
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 10 January, 2015 - 8:41pm