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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 » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Pea and Bean Weevils (Bruchinae) » Amblycerini » Zabrotes

Genus Zabrotes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Zabrotes victoriensis Kingsolver - Zabrotes victoriensis

Bruchinae Mimosestes? - Zabrotes chavesi

Beetle, posterior - Zabrotes cruciger - male

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 Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Bruchinae (Pea and Bean Weevils)

Tribe Amblycerini

Genus Zabrotes

Explanation of Names

Zabrotes Horn 1885

Numbers

18 spp. in our area(1)

Size

Most 1.0-2.5 mm, 1 sp. (amplissimus) reaches 3.7 mm (1)

Range

Mostly sw. US, but 2 spp. (Z. arenarius & Z. subnitens) range east to NJ-FL, two more (Z. densus & Z. spectabilis) north to OR, and Z. subfasciatus is tropicopolitan (reportedly established in TX)(1)

Food

Larval host plants are known for only a few Zabrotes species, and those are from genera like Phaseolus, Senna, Cassia, Vicia and Rhynchosia...all in the Pea Family (Fabaceae). Adults have been seen on and swept from flowers & foliage of plants from many diverse families, but the associations are often incidental and not necessarily indicative of a larval host relationship.(1)

Life Cycle

The larvae consume host plant seed, within which they live.(1)

Remarks

Our only representative of the subtribe Spermophagina Borowiec 1987

Print References

Kingsolver, J. (1990). Biosystematics of the genus of Zabrotes of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc., 116(1), 135-174. (2)

Romero, J., & Johnson, C. (2000). Revision of the genus Zabrotes Horn of Mexico (Coleoptera: Bruchidae: Amblycerinae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc., 126(2), 221-274. (3)

Romero-Nápoles, J.R., J.M. Kingsolver, & E.M. Gómez (2011). New distribution and host records for the genus Zabrotes Horn (Coleoptera: Bruchidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin, 65(3), 294-296. (4)

Works Cited

1.	Handbook of the Bruchidae of the United States and Canada Kingsolver J.M. 2004. USDA, Technical Bulletin 1912 (2 vols.).

2.	Biosystematics of the genus of Zabrotes of America North of Mexico (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) J. Kingsolver . 1990. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc., 116(1), 135-174.

3.	Revision of the genus Zabrotes Horn of Mexico (Coleoptera: Bruchidae: Amblycerinae) J. Romero and C. D. Johnson. 2000. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc., 126(2), 221-274.

4.	New distribution and host records for the genus Zabrotes Horn (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) J. Romero-Nápoles, J.M. Kingsolver, and E.M. Gómez. 2011. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 65(3), 294-296.

Contributed by v belov on 17 June, 2009 - 2:25pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, Edward Ruden, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 29 May, 2022 - 9:31pm

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