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Species Isochnus rufipes - Willow Flea Weevil

tiny black beetle on Sitka Willow - Isochnus rufipes

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 Curculioninae

Tribe Rhamphini (Flea Weevils)

Subtribe Rhamphina

Genus Isochnus

Species rufipes (Willow Flea Weevil)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orchestes rufipes, Orchestes minutus

Explanation of Names

Isochnus rufipes (LeConte 1876)

Range

northern transcontinental (NF-BC to NJ-WV-IA-CO-CA)(1)

Food

hosts: Salix, Populus(1)

Works Cited

1.	First record of Orchestes fagi (L.) in North America, with a checklist of the North Amercian Rhamphini Sweeney, J., R.S. Anderson, and R.P. Webster. 2012. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66: 297-304.

Contributed by v belov on 27 June, 2009 - 2:51pm
Last updated 24 November, 2014 - 11:17am

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