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Peritaxia
Genus
Peritaxia
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
Tropiphorini
Genus
Peritaxia
Explanation of Names
Peritaxia
Horn 1876
Numbers
7 spp. in our area
(
1
)
Range
sw. US to MT
(
1
)
Remarks
adults nocturnal, on various plants
(
1
)
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.
Contributed by
john and jane balaban
on 21 October, 2008 - 8:47pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 21 December, 2013 - 10:51pm