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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Flea Weevils (Rhamphini) » Rhamphina » Tachyerges » Tachyerges niger

Species Tachyerges niger

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
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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 Rhamphini (Flea Weevils)
Subtribe Rhamphina
Genus Tachyerges
Species niger (Tachyerges niger)
Numbers
Tachyerges niger (Horn)
Orig. Comb: Orchestes niger Horn 1873
Syn: Rynchaenus niger (Horn)
Range
widely dist. (NF-AK south to FL-TX-NM-CA)(1)
Food
hosts: Salix(1)
Works Cited
1.First record of Orchestes fagi (L.) in North America, with a checklist of the North Amercian Rhamphini
Sweeney, J., R.S. Anderson, and R.P. Webster. 2012. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66: 297-304.
Contributed by tom murray on 26 August, 2007 - 8:58am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 July, 2016 - 4:09pm

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