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

Genus Trichobaris

white weevil - Trichobaris compacta Trichobaris trinotata - male - female Which weevil? Found on jimson weed. - Trichobaris compacta A fawn Trichobaris on Datura - Trichobaris Grey Weevil - Trichobaris Genus Sphenophorus? - Trichobaris RACA-00101 - Trichobaris Trichobaris compacta
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 Baridinae (Flower Weevils)
Tribe Baridini
Genus Trichobaris
Explanation of Names
Trichobaris LeConte 1876
Numbers
9 spp. in our area(1); not yet in guide: T. cylindrica, T. insolita (both Casey 1892); T. major Barber 1935.
Range
e.NA to CA(1)
Food
hosts: Solanaceae(1)
Life Cycle
Larvae develop in stems(1)
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.