Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Macrorhoptus

Cuculionidae -? - Macrorhoptus estriatus Weevil from Idaho (1) 10.07.05 - Macrorhoptus Macrorhoptus Macrorhoptrus hispidus Dietz - Macrorhoptus hispidus weevil in flowers of Callirhoe involucrata - Macrorhoptus estriatus Weevil on vegetation in Chaparral - Macrorhoptus Curculioninae? - Macrorhoptus Curculioninae? - Macrorhoptus
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
Genus Macrorhoptus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
genus not yet assigned to a tribe; needs revision(1)
Explanation of Names
Macrorhoptus LeConte 1876
Numbers
6 spp. in our area(1)
Range
c. & w. US(1)
Food
associated with various Malvaceae (Sphaeralcea, Sidalcea, Callirhoe)(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.