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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Primitive Weevils (Brentidae) » Pear-shaped Weevils (Apioninae) » Oxystomatini » Synapiina » Ischnopterapion

Genus Ischnopterapion

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
weevil - Ischnopterapion virens - female Ischnopterapion virens White Clover Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens Ischnopterapion virens Apioninae on beets - Ischnopterapion virens White Clover Weevil - Ischnopterapion virens Brentid - Ischnopterapion virens Tiny weevil - Ischnopterapion virens
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 Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily Apioninae (Pear-shaped Weevils)
Tribe Oxystomatini
Subtribe Synapiina
Genus Ischnopterapion
Explanation of Names
Ischnopterapion Bokor 1923
Greek 'narrow-winged Apion'(1)
Numbers
2 spp. (both adventive) in our area(2)(3), 11 spp. total(4)
Range
Palaearctic group(5)
Food
on Fabaceae
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
2.Ischnopterapion virens (Herbst) (...), a Palearctic clover weevil new to North America...
Hoebeke E.R., Byers R.A., Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Stimmel J.F. 2000. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 102: 151-161.
3.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.
4.Dmitriev D.A. (2003-) 3I interactive keys and taxonomic databases
5.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 v belov on 3 February, 2012 - 6:55pm
Last updated 6 January, 2015 - 10:31am

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