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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Dryophthorinae » Rhynchophorini » Sphenophorina » Billbugs (Sphenophorus) » Timothy Billbug (Sphenophorus zeae)

Species Sphenophorus zeae - Timothy Billbug

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · See Also · Works Cited
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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 Dryophthorinae
Tribe Rhynchophorini
Subtribe Sphenophorina
Genus Sphenophorus (Billbugs)
Species zeae (Timothy Billbug)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=blatchleyi Chittenden
Explanation of Names
Sphenophorus zeae Walsh 1867
Identification
very large punctures along striae of elytra; beak humped at base
Range
se. Canada and most of the US, except the northwest: NS-FL west to ON-ND-CO-CA(1)(2)(3)
Habitat
coastal salt-spray barrens, pinelands, hay fields, corn fields
Food
Timothy (Phleum pratense), Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis)(2)
See Also
S. australis lacks large punctures along striae of elytra, and beak not humped at base
Works Cited
1.A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae
Vaurie P. 1983. USDA handbook no. 529-143a. x+28 pp.
2.A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
3.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 18 June, 2008 - 11:45pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 31 May, 2012 - 9:26pm

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