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Genus Microplontus

weevil - Microplontus campestris weevil - Microplontus campestris Beetle - Microplontus campestris Beetle - Microplontus campestris weevil beetle - Microplontus campestris Microplontus campestris Microplontus campestris Microplontus campestris
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 Ceutorhynchini
Genus Microplontus
Explanation of Names
Microplontus Wagner 1944
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, both adventive(1), 18 spp. total(2)
Range
Palaearctic (mostly Mediterranean) genus; in our area, M. edentulus was released in w. Canada (SK-AB) to control Matricaria perforata; M. campestris found in ON(2)(1) and apparently spreading
Food
on Asteraceae
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.Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae)
Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 6 June, 2011 - 4:49pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 25 January, 2013 - 8:19pm

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