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Genus Cophes

Weevil emerged from hackberry log - Cophes oblongus Snout Beetle - Cophes oblongus Bark Beetle - Cophes obtentus Cophes fallax Scaly Weevil - Cophes fallax weevil - Cophes fallax Family Curculionidae - Cophes oblongus Unknown Beetle - Cophes fallax
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 Gasterocercini
Genus Cophes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
defined differently in Sleeper (1955)(1)
Explanation of Names
Cophes Champion 1905
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(2), many in the Neotropics(3)
Range
e NA to AZ and across the Neotropics
Habitat
dead wood; adults come to lights(2)
Works Cited
1.A synopsis of the genus Cophes in the United States and Mexico (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)
Sleeper E.L. 1955. Ohio J. Sci. 55: 188-191.
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.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.
Contributed by v belov on 21 April, 2009 - 6:42am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 13 March, 2019 - 1:11pm

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