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For the United States & Canada

Genus Panscopus

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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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Tropiphorini
Genus Panscopus
Explanation of Names
Panscopus Schönherr 1842
Numbers
28 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
You can always recognize the genus by the large rounded scales covering the strial punctures ―R.S. Anderson
Range
across the US and so. Canada(1)
Habitat
mostly forests, but some in more arid areas(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.