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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Flower Weevils (Baridinae) » Apostasimerini » Catapastus

Genus Catapastus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · 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 Baridinae (Flower Weevils)
Tribe Apostasimerini
Genus Catapastus
Explanation of Names
Catapastus Casey 1892
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1)
not yet in guide: C. albonotatus and signatipennis Linell, 1897, diffusus Casey, 1892 [all from FL]
Identification
See Casey (1892, 1920) to separate the spp.(1)
Range
e. US to FL-TX(1)
Food
Associated with various spp. of Zanthoxylum (Rutaceae)(1)
Print References
Casey T.L. (1892) Coleopterological notices. IV. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 6: 359–712.
Casey T.L. (1920) Some descriptive studies among the American Barinae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 9: 300–516.
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 v belov on 1 April, 2009 - 9:07am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche
Last updated 12 February, 2024 - 7:11am

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