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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Cimberis

Weevil - Cimberis compta Pine Flower Snout Beetle - Cimberis pilosa Cimberis - Cimberis decipiens Cimberis - Cimberis decipiens Cimberis elongata (LeConte) - Cimberis elongata Cimberis elongata Cimberis pallipennis - male Cimberis bihirsuta
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 Cimberidae (Pine Flower Snout Beetles)
Tribe Cimberidini
Genus Cimberis
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neocimberis O'Brien & Wibmer 1982
Explanation of Names
Cimberis Gozis 1881
Numbers
7 spp. in our area(1)
Range
much of NA; 4 spp. are western, and all 3 spp. present in the east range west of the Mississippi River(2)
Food
on pines(1), but C. compta also recorded on other conifers (Pseudotsuga, Cypress)(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.A catalog of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Family: Nemonychidae
Hamilton R.W. 1994. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-134. x+8 pp.