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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Panscopus
Genus
Panscopus
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.
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 28 October, 2008 - 8:07pm
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 6 September, 2023 - 3:31pm