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Genus Orchestomerus

Orchestomerus wickhami (Dietz) - Orchestomerus wickhami

Leaf-mining ceutorhynchine - Orchestomerus eisemani

Strebor Street Parthenocissus quinquefolia leaf mine 2015 4 - Orchestomerus eisemani

Orchestomerus whiteheadi? - Orchestomerus whiteheadi

Lake Crabtree leaf miner on Parthenocissus quinquefolia Orchestomerus eismani 2018 2 - Orchestomerus eisemani

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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)

Tribe Cnemogonini

Genus Orchestomerus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

some NA spp. used to be treated in Hypocoeliodes Faust 1896 (as currently defined, restricted to S. America)(1)

Explanation of Names

Orchestomerus Dietz 1896

Numbers

4 spp. in our area, 13 total(1)

Range

e. US, TX, AZ(2)

Food

All four North American species have been associated with Vitaceae.

O. whiteheadi is associated with Vitis (wild grape, Vitaceae) in AZ(2)

Print References

Yoshitake, Hiraku and Robert S. Anderson. 2015. A review of the genus Orchestomerus Dietz (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchinae: Cnemogonini) of the USA. The Coleopterists Bulletin 69(4): 565–578.

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae) Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 pp.

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.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 23 September, 2009 - 6:36pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 28 December, 2015 - 4:26pm

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