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Genus Piazorhinus

Weevil - Piazorhinus scutellaris weevil - Piazorhinus pictus Piazorhinus pictus LeConte - Piazorhinus pictus Beetle 49 - Piazorhinus pictus Winter Weevil - Piazorhinus pictus Weevil sp - Piazorhinus scutellaris Yellow weevil - Piazorhinus pictus Weevil on Rubus - Piazorhinus scutellaris
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 Piazorhinini
Genus Piazorhinus
Explanation of Names
Piazorhinus Schönherr 1835
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1); Hespenheide (2021), 16 more in Mesoamerica(2)
Range
e. NA to Argentina(1)(3)
Food
Associated with Quercus (Fagaceae) and Caccoloba diversifolia (Polygonaceae)(1)
Print References
Hespenheide, H. A. 2021. A new Piazorhinus Schoenherr, 1836 from Arizona and New Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 75(2): 497–500.
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.Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae).
Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.
3.A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 20 September, 2007 - 11:02pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 10 November, 2023 - 8:44am

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