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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Fallapion
Genus
Fallapion
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
Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily
Apioninae (Pear-shaped Weevils)
Tribe
Piezotrachelini
Genus
Fallapion
Explanation of Names
Fallapion
Kissinger 1968
Numbers
30 spp. in our area
(
1
)
Range
Canada to Mexico, widespread
(
1
)
(
2
)
Food
mostly on Asteraceae and Apiaceae
(
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.
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 11 April, 2010 - 9:59pm
Last updated 6 January, 2015 - 10:38am