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Genus Prorutidosoma

Rutidosoma decipiens - Prorutidosoma decipiens Rutidosoma decipiens - Prorutidosoma decipiens Rutidosoma decipiens - Prorutidosoma decipiens Rutidosoma decipiens - Prorutidosoma decipiens Weevil Beetle - Prorutidosoma decipiens Weevil Beetle - Prorutidosoma decipiens
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 Scleropterini
Genus Prorutidosoma
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
the sole member of this genus used to be treated in Rutidosoma Stephens 1831 (as now defined, restricted to the Palaearctic)
Explanation of Names
Prorutidosoma Korotyaev 1999
Numbers
monotypic genus(1)
Range
nearctic(1) transcontinental, north to AK‒YT‒LB(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae)
Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 pp.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.New records of Curculionoidea from Newfoundland and Labrador, with the first records of Orthochaetes setiger (Beck)...
Langor D.W., Anderson R.S., Bouchard P., Langor S.D. 2022. Zookeys 1136: 125–162.