Genus Sitophagus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Sitophagus hololeptoides (Laporte) - Sitophagus hololeptoides - male

Sitophagus hololeptoides (Laporte) - Sitophagus hololeptoides - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Diaperinae

Tribe Diaperini

Subtribe Adelinina

Genus Sitophagus

Explanation of Names

Sitophagus Mulsant 1854

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1)

Range

S. alveolatus AZ

S. hololeptoides se. US to Central America and Antilles

"I don't find any records of it outside the Americas so not sure if 'cosmopolitan' is correct." (Warren Steiner, pers. comm. to =v= 23.vi.10)

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.

Contributed by v belov on 20 May, 2010 - 3:45pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 2 December, 2014 - 10:02pm

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