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Tribe Piesocorynini

Fungus Feeder - Piesocorynus plagifer - male

Black Fungus Weevil - Piesocorynus moestus

Piesocorynus tesselatus? - Piesocorynus tesselatus

Wide Snout Fungus Weevil - Lateral - Piesocorynus

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 Anthribidae (Fungus Weevils)

Subfamily Anthribinae

Tribe Piesocorynini

Explanation of Names

Piesocorynini Valentine 1960

Numbers

2 genera in our area, 6 total(1)

Range

New World (e. US to Brazil)(1)

Works Cited

1.	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 18 January, 2013 - 7:06am
Last updated 23 January, 2015 - 7:33am

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