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Genus Grypus

Grypus equiseti (Fabricius) - Grypus equiseti - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)

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.

Contributed by v belov on 30 September, 2010 - 2:07am
Last updated 23 January, 2013 - 9:01am

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