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Genus Hylobius

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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 Molytinae
Tribe Hylobiini (Pine Weevils)
Genus Hylobius
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
reviewed in(1)
Explanation of Names
Hylobius Germar 1817
Numbers
8 spp. in our area (incl. H. transversovittatus, introduced for weed control)(2)
Range
holarctic & Oriental (+1 sp. Afrotropical)(3), incl. most of NA(2)
Food
native NA spp. are associated with conifers(2)
See Also
Pachylobius picivorus
Works Cited
1.A review of the Hylobius of North America, with a new species injurious to slash pine (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
Warner R.E. 1966. Col. Bull. 20: 65-81.
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.
Contributed by Cotinis on 27 August, 2004 - 8:03pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 21 July, 2017 - 3:26pm

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