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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Erirhininae » Tanysphyrus

Genus Tanysphyrus

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food
small weevil - Tanysphyrus lemnae tiny weevil - Tanysphyrus lemnae Tiny insects on floating plants - Tanysphyrus lemnae Tiny insects on floating plants - Tanysphyrus lemnae Weevil - Tanysphyrus lemnae tiny weevil - Tanysphyrus lemnae weevil night - weevil #5 - smaller still - Tanysphyrus lemnae weevil night - weevil #5 - smaller still - Tanysphyrus lemnae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Erirhininae
Genus Tanysphyrus
Numbers
Nearctica lists 2 species: Tanysphyrus lemnae Fabricius 1792 (Curculio) and T. makolskii Smreczynski 1957 (Tanysphyrus) [junior syn. of T. ater]

American Beetles lists 2 species: Tanysphyrus lemnae and T. ater Blatchley 1928 [=T. makolskii Smreczynski 1957]
Range
Eastern US and Canada to British Columbia and Utah
Food
leaf miners
Contributed by tom murray on 20 November, 2006 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian
Last updated 4 April, 2007 - 9:30am

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