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

Genus Grypus

Grypus equiseti (Fabricius) - Grypus equiseti - male Grypus equiseti (Fabricius) - Grypus equiseti - male Grypus equiseti Grypus equiseti Grypus equiseti ND weevil - Grypus equiseti possible Grypus  - Grypus leechi Snout beetle - Grypus equiseti
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 Brachyceridae
Subfamily Erirhininae (Marsh Weevils)
Subtribe Erirhinina
Genus Grypus
Explanation of Names
Grypus Germar 1817
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1)
Range
Holarctic; across Canada and n. US south to NY-CO-CA(1)(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.