Family Nemonychidae - Pine Flower Snout Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited

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 Nemonychidae (Pine Flower Snout Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Rhinomaceridae

Explanation of Names

Nemonychidae Bedel 1882

Numbers

15 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1), ~70 spp. in 23 genera worldwide(2)(3)

Overview of our faunaTaxa not yet in the guide are marked (*)

Family NEMONYCHIDAE

Subfamily CIMBERIDINAE

Tribe Cimberidini Acromacer · Cimberis · *Pityomacer

Tribe Doydirhynchini Lecontellus

Subfamily *RHINORHYNCHINAE

Tribe *Rhinorhynchini *Atopomacer¹

Size

3.0-5.5 mm(1)

Range

in NA, boreal and western montane (all our genera except Cimberis are restricted to the west)(1)

Food

larvae develop in the male strobili of conifers; all our spp. are apparently associated with Pinus spp.; adults and larvae are likely feed mainly on pine pollen(2)

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 catalog of Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Family: Nemonychidae Hamilton R.W. 1994. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-134. x+8 pp.

3.	Order Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification... Ślipiński S.A., Leschen R.A.B., Lawrence J.F. 2011. Zootaxa 3148: 203–208.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 3 December, 2005 - 8:37pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 11:04pm

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