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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Cryptorhynchus
Genus
Cryptorhynchus
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
Cryptorhynchinae (Hidden Snout Weevils)
Tribe
Cryptorhynchini
Subtribe
Cryptorhynchina
Genus
Cryptorhynchus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
a composite genus in its present limits, in bad need of a worldwide revision
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1
)
Explanation of Names
Cryptorhynchus
Illiger 1807
Greek 'hidden snout'
Numbers
5 spp. in our area
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2
)
Range
cosmopolitan
(
1
)
; in our area, e. NA
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2
)
Works Cited
1.
A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
2.
A Review of the Genus Cryptorhynchus Illiger 1807 in the United States and Canada (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
Anderson, Robert S. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
Contributed by
tom murray
on 12 May, 2005 - 6:16pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
,
onegunah
Last updated 9 February, 2014 - 12:52pm