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Species Cryptorhynchus fuscatus

Representative Images

Cryptorhynchus fuscatus New weevil - Cryptorhynchus fuscatus Evasive Weevil ID - Cryptorhynchus fuscatus Cryptorhynchus fuscatus? - Cryptorhynchus fuscatus - female Unknown weevil - Cryptorhynchus fuscatus Unk Conotrachelus - Cryptorhynchus fuscatus Weevil - Cryptorhynchus fuscatus Cryptorhynchus fuscatus

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 Cryptorhynchinae (Hidden Snout Weevils)
Tribe Cryptorhynchini
Subtribe Cryptorhynchina
Genus Cryptorhynchus
Species fuscatus (Cryptorhynchus fuscatus)

Explanation of Names

Cryptorhynchus fuscatus LeConte 1876
fuscatus = 'dusky, brownish'

Size

5-7.5 mm(1)

Identification

Pronotum with distinct tufts of black scales; male has pair of small scale-tufted tubercles on basal margin of ventrite 5(1)

Range

e NA (TX-FL-QC-KS) - Map (1)(2)

Habitat

collected from poison sumac vines, underneath the bark of pecan, in Lindgren funnel trap, and reared from Toxicodendron radicans and Acer saccharum. (1)
collected by beating hickory, sifting old leaves, and from dead twigs. (3)

Remarks

taken at lights (BG data & (4))

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.A Review of the Genus Cryptorhynchus Illiger 1807 in the United States and Canada (Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae)
Anderson, Robert S. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Rhynchophora or weevils of North Eastern America
Blatchley and Leng. 1916. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. 682 pp.
4.Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae).
Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 4 April, 2009 - 11:16pm
Additional contributions by urtica, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, onegunah
Last updated 27 March, 2022 - 12:05pm

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