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Species Anthonomus texanus

Anthonomus (Anthonomorphus) texanus Dietz - Anthonomus texanus

Anthonomus texanus Dietz - Anthonomus texanus

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 Curculioninae

Tribe Anthonomini

Genus Anthonomus

No Taxon (subgenus Anthonomorphus)

Species texanus (Anthonomus texanus)

Explanation of Names

Anthonomus (Anthonomorphus) texanus Dietz 1891

Size

3.2-4.8 mm (1)

Range

AZ to w. TX / c. Mex. - Map (1)(2)(3)

Season

on plants Apr-Sept (1)

in ground trash around cotton fields Jan-Feb (1)

Food

common on globemallow - Sphaeralcea spp. (Malvaceae) (1)

Life Cycle

develops in flower buds (H. R. Burke, pers comm. to MAQ 2015)

Print References

Dietz, W.G. 1891. Revision of the genera and species of Anthonomini inhabiting North America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 18: 177-276.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	Studies on the genus Anthonomus in North and Central America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) II. The subgenus Anthonomorphus Dietz. Burke, H.R. 1964. The Coleopterists Bulletin 18(1): 7-17.

2.	Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies... O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 17 May, 2015 - 6:39pm
Last updated 18 November, 2019 - 2:35pm

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