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Species Smicronyx flavicans

cream speckled Curculionidae - Smicronyx flavicans

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 Smicronychini

Genus Smicronyx

No Taxon (Subgenus Pseudosmicronyx)

Species flavicans (Smicronyx flavicans)

Explanation of Names

Smicronyx flavicans LeConte, 1876

Size

2.7-3.2 mm

Range

e. NA (NB-ND south to VA-KY-TX)(1)

Food

on Ambrosia trifida(1)

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Curculionidae: Erirhininae O'Brien C.W., Anderson D.M. 1996. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-143f. 40 pp.

Contributed by Tim Moyer on 5 October, 2009 - 9:57pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 30 June, 2023 - 10:35am

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