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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
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Series Cucujiformia
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Brentinae
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Sweet Potato Weevil (Cyladini)
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Cylas
Genus
Cylas
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon
(Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily
Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family
Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily
Brentinae
Tribe
Cyladini (Sweet Potato Weevil)
Genus
Cylas
Explanation of Names
Cylas
Latreille 1802
Numbers
A single species in our area
(
1
)
Range
native to the ?neothropics, adventive in our area, widespread in so. US
(
1
)
Food
hosts: Convolvulaceae, incl. Sweet Potato
(
1
)
Works Cited
1.
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.
Contributed by
Phillip Harpootlian
on 27 July, 2006 - 7:09am
Additional contributions by
v belov
Last updated 8 April, 2013 - 3:32am