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Genus Orchestes

Curculionidae, European Elm Flea Weevil, dorsal - Orchestes steppensis

Weevil found on serviceberry flower - Orchestes

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)

Subtribe Rhamphina

Genus Orchestes

Explanation of Names

Orchestes Illiger 1798

Numbers

7 spp. in our area, of which 2 adventive (O. alni, O. fagi) and one (O. testaceus) holarctic(1)

Identification

See(2)(1)

Range

holarctic & Afrotropical(3); widely distributed in NA(1)

Works Cited

1.	First record of Orchestes fagi (L.) in North America, with a checklist of the North Amercian Rhamphini Sweeney, J., R.S. Anderson, and R.P. Webster. 2012. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66: 297-304.

2.	Revision of the subfamily Rhynchaeninae in North America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Anderson, R.S. 1989. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 115: 207-312.

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 Beatriz Moisset on 26 May, 2005 - 6:48pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 24 November, 2014 - 11:35am

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