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Genus Bagous

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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 Bagoinae
Genus Bagous
Other Common Names
B. lunatoides, Frog’s Bit Weevil; B. hydrillae, Hydrilla Stem Weevil; B. affinis, Hydrilla Tuber Weevil(1)
Explanation of Names
Bagous Germar 1817
Numbers
33 spp. in our area(2)
Range
worldwide(3)
Habitat
semi-aquatic; they hide by day and feed at night not venturing far from the ground(4)
Food
various wetland plants(2)
Works Cited
1.Insects and other arthropods that feed on aquatic and wetland plants
Center T.D., Dray F.A., Jubinsky G.P., Grodowitz M.J. 2002. USDA ARS, Technical Bulletin 1870. 200 pp.
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.A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Alonso-Zarazaga M.A., Lyal C.H.C. 1999. Entomopraxis, Barcelona. 315 pp.
4.Weevils of Kansas - A Manual for Identification
Glenn Arthur Salsbury. 2000. Private/Self.
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 4 July, 2006 - 7:38pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 18 January, 2015 - 1:09pm

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