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

Genus Trichobaris

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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 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, and 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.