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Tribe Araecerini

Acaromimus americanus (Motschulsky) - Acaromimus americanus Araecerus fasciculatus (DeGeer) - Araecerus fasciculatus What cute little beetle is this? - Araecerus fasciculatus ID for a broad nosed weevil? - Araecerus fasciculatus Araecerus fasciculatus Araecerus fasciculatus Habroxenus politus Habroxenus politus
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 Anthribidae (Fungus Weevils)
Subfamily Choraginae
Tribe Araecerini
Explanation of Names
Araecerini Lacordaire 1865
Numbers
5 spp. (of which 2 adventive) in 4 genera in our area, over a hundred worldwide(1)
Range
in our area, native spp. in the southeast (MD-FL-TX)(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.