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Species Ericydeus lautus

Beetle - Ericydeus lautus little weevil - Ericydeus lautus Grey Beetle - Ericydeus lautus Ericydeus lautus? - Ericydeus lautus Ericydeus lautus E. lautus - Ericydeus lautus Weevil - Ericydeus lautus Ericydeus lautus? - Ericydeus lautus
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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Naupactini
Genus Ericydeus
Species lautus (Ericydeus lautus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ericydeus lautus (LeConte 1856)
Tanymecus lautus LeConte 1854 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., Vol. 7, pg. 85
Cyphus lautus LeConte 1856 Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. 15, pg. 85
Pactorrhinus grisescens Ancey 1881 (described from AZ) is likely a synonym(1)
Explanation of Names
lautus (L). 'washed, elegant, noble' (2)
Range
sw. US (sw CA to w TX, sw CO to NV) / Mex. - Map (1)(3), mostly AZ to sw NM / nw Mex.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
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.
2.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)