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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Minute Seed Weevils (Ceutorhynchinae) » Ceutorhynchini » Ceutorhynchus » Ceutorhynchus americanus

Species Ceutorhynchus americanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · See Also · Works Cited
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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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)
Tribe Ceutorhynchini
Genus Ceutorhynchus
Species americanus (Ceutorhynchus americanus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
erroneously treated as C. cyanipennis Germar in older American literature
Explanation of Names
Ceutorhynchus americanus Buchanan 1937
Range
much of NA(1) (CA-MS-NS-BC) - Map (2)(3), most records from n. US & Can.
Food
hosts include radish, horse-radish, Lepidium sp., mustard, and chinese cabbage(1)
See Also
Ceutorhynchus erysimi (Fabricius)
- widely dist., though largely absent from the southernmost states
Works Cited
1.Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of the Yukon
Anderson R.S. 1997. In: Danks H.V., Downes J.A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa: 523–5.
2.Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies...
O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by tom murray on 24 January, 2009 - 1:25pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 8 March, 2024 - 1:34pm

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