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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Leguminous Seed Weevils (Tychiini) » Tychiina » Sibinia

Genus Sibinia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Sibinia Sibinia fulva (LeConte) - Sibinia fulva Sibinia maculata Brick red weevil - Sibinia fulva Sibinia maculata? - Sibinia maculata Sibinia Sibinia Sibinia
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 Tychiini (Leguminous Seed Weevils)
Subtribe Tychiina
Genus Sibinia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Sibinia Germar 1817
Numbers
22 spp. in our area(2), ~130 spp. in the New World, ~200 in 2 subgenera total
Range
Holarctic, Neotropoical, Afrotropical • in our area, sw.US (CA‒TX)(2) + one recent introduction to s.FL
Food
Associated with Fabaceae: Mimosoideae(2)
Life Cycle
Larvae develop in reproductive organs of host(2)
Works Cited
1.The weevil genus Sibinia: natural history, taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography.
Wayne E. Clark. 1978. Quaestiones Entomolgicae 14(2): 91-387.
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.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 September, 2008 - 6:36pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 January, 2025 - 5:57pm

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