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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Minute Seed Weevils (Ceutorhynchinae) » Phytobiini » Rhinoncus » Rhinoncus pericarpius

Species Rhinoncus pericarpius

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)
Tribe Phytobiini
Genus Rhinoncus
Species pericarpius (Rhinoncus pericarpius)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Campylirhynchus pericarpius (Linnaeus 1758)(1)
Explanation of Names
Rhinoncus pericarpius (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
2.5-3.4 mm(2)
Range
native to, and widespread across, the Palaearctic(3), adventive in NA and now widespread across Canada, ne. US & WA(4)
Food
Dock (Rumex spp.); larvae are stem miners
Remarks
earliest record in our area: MA 1928(4)
Works Cited
1.Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies...
O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.
2.Benisch C. (2007-) kerbtier.de – Beetle fauna of Germany
3.Coleoptera Poloniae
4.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 tom murray on 4 May, 2006 - 7:39pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 21 April, 2017 - 10:02pm

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