Genus Listronotus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited

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 Cyclominae

Tribe Listroderini

Genus Listronotus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Hyperodes Jekel 1865, Lixellus LeConte 1876, Macrops Kirby 1837, Anchodemus LeConte 1876

revised in (1)

Explanation of Names

Listronotus Jekel 1865

Greek 'spade-backed'

Numbers

>80 spp. in our area(2)

Identification

The genus can roughly be broken down into species that are larger than 5.0 mm and those smaller than 5.0 mm. The smaller species are quite uniform in appearance.(3) This genus is for the most part is extremely difficult to determine to species as available key characters are very subjective, and almost all reliable species ID's require genitalic dissection. Even then there are no available illustrations of genitalic characters for the synonomized genera listed above. G. Hanley (2020) is currently attempting to match all known species with new genitalic imaging.If you have a series of specimens and you can spare a few, Guy can dissect for ID...Pictures of this genus can rarely be taken to species with any confidence.

Range

New World: throughout NA and south to Argentina & Chile(4)

Habitat

wetlands(2)

Print References

Morrone J.J., Marvaldi A.E., O'Brien C.W. (1995) Lixellus LeConte, a new synonym of Listronotus Jekel (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Ent. News 106: 108–112.

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genus Listronotus: I (Curculionidae: Coleoptera) Lyman S. Henderson. 1939. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 215-337.

2.	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.

3.	Weevils of Kansas - A Manual for Identification Glenn Arthur Salsbury. 2000. Private/Self.

4.	A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.

Contributed by Stephen_WV on 16 June, 2006 - 7:23am
Additional contributions by urtica, ghanley1, Mike Quinn, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 26 July, 2023 - 11:12pm

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