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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Sternechus
Genus
Sternechus
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
Molytinae
Tribe
Sternechini
Genus
Sternechus
Explanation of Names
Sternechus
Schönherr 1826
Numbers
2 spp. in our area
(
1
)
, numerous in the Neotropics
(
2
)
Range
so. US to Argentina & Bolivia
(
3
)
; in our area, one sp. in se. US north to NJ-IL, another in AZ
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
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.
2.
Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies...
O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.
3.
A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
Contributed by
v belov
on 4 November, 2009 - 1:22pm
Last updated 22 January, 2015 - 1:46pm