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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Primitive Weevils (Brentidae) » Pear-shaped Weevils (Apioninae) » Aplemonini » Perapion » Perapion curtirostre

Species Perapion curtirostre

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet 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 (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily Apioninae (Pear-shaped Weevils)
Tribe Aplemonini
Genus Perapion
Species curtirostre (Perapion curtirostre)
Explanation of Names
Perapion curtirostre (Germar 1817)
Size
2.0-2.5(1)
Range
native to Europe; introduced to NA and now widespread in the northeast (NF-QC-IN)(2)(3)(1)
Food
associated with Rumex(2)
Remarks
earliest NA record: ME & NY 1968(2)
Internet References
Species page(4)
Works Cited
1.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
2.Introduced Apionidae and Brentidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Majka C.G., Anderson R.S., Georgeson E. 2007. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 109: 66–74.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.WCG – Website of the Watford Coleoptera Group
Contributed by v belov on 11 June, 2009 - 1:45am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 8 January, 2015 - 10:40am

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