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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Anthonomini » Pseudanthonomus » Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus

Species Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Curculionid - Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus

Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus Dietz - Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus

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 Pseudanthonomus

Species tomentosulus (Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus)

Explanation of Names

Pseudanthonomus tomentosulus Dietz 1891

tomentosulus (L). 'dense hair' (1)

Size

Male Length: 1.9-2.0 mm (2)

Female Length: 1.5-2.1 mm

Identification

Dets. M. A. Quinn, 2015

Range

AZ to Brazos & Hidalgo Counties, TX north to Ardmore, OK. (2)

Food

Krameria lanceolata, Krameria erecta (=Krameria parvifolia) (Krameriaceae) (2)

See Also

Anthonomus rileyi Clark & Burke - Rostrum nearly straight, slightly longer and more slender in female; with sparse elongate scales at extreme base (3)

PARATYPE

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.

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	Revision of the Nearctic species of Pseudanthonomus Dietz (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Clark, W.E. 1987. The Coleopterists Bulletin 41(3): 263-285.

3.	The Anthonomus juniperinus group, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Clark W.E., Burke H.R. 2010. Insecta Mundi 0119: 1-10.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 4 November, 2015 - 4:03pm
Last updated 23 May, 2023 - 7:59pm

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