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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Phyllotrox

Weevil - Phyllotrox ferrugineus Weevil - Phyllotrox ferrugineus Phyllotrox rutilis - Phyllotrox rutilus - male Weevil - Phyllotrox ferrugineus Phyllotrox ferrugineus Curculioninae - Phyllotrox Phyllotrox? - Phyllotrox Phyllotrox? - Phyllotrox
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 Curculioninae
Tribe Derelomini
Genus Phyllotrox
Explanation of Names
Phyllotrox Schönherr 1843
Numbers
7 spp. in our area(1)
Range
6 spp. in w.US, Ph. ferrugineus is eastern, and Ph. nubifer ranges east into OH-KY(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. Curculionidae: Erirhininae
O'Brien C.W., Anderson D.M. 1996. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-143f. 40 pp.