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Subfamily Pterocolinae - Thief Weevils

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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 Attelabidae (Leaf Rolling Weevils)
Subfamily Pterocolinae (Thief Weevils)
Explanation of Names
Pterocolinae Lacordaire 1865
Numbers
the smallest subfamily, represented in our area by a single species; 20 spp. in 2 genera total(1)
Range
New World, primarily neotropical; in our area, e. NA north to ON and southwest to TX-AZ(1)
Habitat
on many trees and shrubs(2)
Print References
Hamilton R.W. (1998) Taxonomic revision of the new world Pterocolinae (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 124: 203-269.
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.Beetles of Eastern North America
Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.
Contributed by v belov on 11 April, 2010 - 6:22pm
Last updated 12 August, 2014 - 1:26pm

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