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Species Sphenophorus minimus - Lesser Billbug

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Dryophthorinae

Tribe Rhynchophorini

Subtribe Sphenophorina

Genus Sphenophorus (Billbugs)

Species minimus (Lesser Billbug)

Other Common Names

Little Billbug

Explanation of Names

Sphenophorus minimus Hart 1890

Range

e. NA (ME-FL to ON-WI-KS) & CA(1)(2)

Works Cited

1.	A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Curculionidae: Rhynchophorinae Vaurie P. 1983. USDA handbook no. 529-143a. x+28 pp.

2.	University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections

Contributed by v belov on 23 May, 2009 - 8:38am
Last updated 31 May, 2012 - 9:14pm

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