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Genus Cylas

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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

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