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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Tanymecini » Pandeleteius » Pandeleteius longicollis

Species Pandeleteius longicollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Pandeleteius longicollis Champion - Pandeleteius longicollis

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 Tanymecini

Genus Pandeleteius

Species longicollis (Pandeleteius longicollis)

Explanation of Names

Pandeleteius longicollis Champion, 1911

longicollis (roughly) translates as 'long-necked destroyer of all' (1)

Numbers

13 spp. n. of Mex. (2)

Identification

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

Range

s. TX to Mex. - Map (3)(4)(Champion, 1911)(5)

Food

Adults feed on Mesquite - Prosopis spp.

Remarks

fairly common via beating and Lindgren funnel traps at Laguna Atascosa NWR, Rio Hondo, Cameron Co., TX (4)

See Also

Pandeleteius nodifer Champion

- Range: s. TX, s. FL

Det. Charles O'Brien, 2009

Print References

Howden, A.T. 1959. A revision of the species of Pandeleteius Schonherr and Pandeleteinus Champion of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 29(10): 361-421.

David Sharp. 1911. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora. Volume IV, Part 3. pg 206, Tab. 8: Fig. 30, 30a.

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

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.

3.	Illustrated Beetle (Coleoptera) Inventory of the Sabal Palm Sanctuary (Cameron County, Texas) Edward G. Riley & Michael A. Quinn. 2011. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

4.	Beetle biodiversity response to vegetation restoration of mid-valley riparian woodland in the LRGV of southern Texas. King, J.E. 2015. Unpublished master's thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station. viii + 218 pp.

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 10 March, 2009 - 11:07am
Last updated 26 September, 2019 - 4:50pm

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