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Genus Tachygonus

Tachygonus centralis - female Coleoptera (Little Wooly Mammoth) - Tachygonus lecontei Tachygonus lecontei Tachygonus lecontei Tachygonus lecontei Tachygonus lecontei Tachygonus lecontei Tachygonus centralis? - Tachygonus centralis
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)
Genus Tachygonus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
reviewed in (1); used to be treated in subfam. Conoderinae, e.g. in(2)(3)
Explanation of Names
Tachygonus Guérin-Ménéville 1833
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(2)
NB: T. spinipes, T. gracilipes, T. minutus, and T. nigrescens, synonymized by Hespenheide (1992), are listed as valid in O'Brien's 1997 catalog(4) that was prepared before Hespenheide's revision and not updated to reflect the synonymy. --H. Hespenheide, pers.comm. to =v= 9.viii.2011)
Range
e. NA west to CO-TX-AZ(2)
Food
larvae mine leaves of various deciduous trees, incl. Quercus, Robinia, Ulmus, etc.(4)
Remarks
our only representative of the subtribe Tachygonina Lacordaire 1865(5)
Works Cited
1.A review of the genus Tachygonus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) north of Mexico
Hespenheide H.A. 1992. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 94: 1-11.
2.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.
3.Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae).
Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.
4.A catalog of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Curculionidae: Acicnemidinae, Cossoninae, Rhytirrhininae, Molytinae...
O'Brien C.W. 1997. USDA Agric. handbook 529-143g. 49 pp.
5.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.