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Barynotus
Genus
Barynotus
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
Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe
Geonemini
Genus
Barynotus
Explanation of Names
Barynotus
Germar 1817
Numbers
3 spp. in our area (all adventive)
(
1
)
, 15 total
(
2
)
Identification
key to spp. in
(
2
)
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (Atlantic Canada, ne. US, BC)
(
1
)
(
3
)
Habitat
wooded areas; larvae in soil
Food
larvae feed on roots, adults on foliage
(
3
)
Remarks
all likely introduced with dry ballast
(
3
)
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.
Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 25. Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae.
Donald E. Bright, Patrice Bouchard. 2008. 2008. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
3.
The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.
Contributed by
v belov
on 9 December, 2010 - 9:16pm
Last updated 20 December, 2013 - 9:32am