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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Pea and Bean Weevils (Bruchinae) » Bruchini » Acanthoscelidina » Bruchidius » Bruchidius terrenus

Species Bruchidius terrenus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Coleoptera - Bruchidius terrenus Seedweevil? - Bruchidius terrenus UID WEEVIL - Bruchidius terrenus Pea and Bean Weevil? - Bruchidius terrenus Weevil - Bruchidius terrenus Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Bruchidius terrenus Gray Leaf Beetle - Lateral - Bruchidius terrenus Delta Flower Scarab - Trigonopeltastes delta - nymph? - Bruchidius terrenus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Bruchinae (Pea and Bean Weevils)
Tribe Bruchini
Subtribe Acanthoscelidina
Genus Bruchidius
Species terrenus (Bruchidius terrenus)
Explanation of Names
Bruchus terrenus Sharp 1886
Size
2.46-4.07 mm (mostly 3.7-3.8 mm)(1)
Range
native to e. Asia, adventive in NA(1), now widespread across so. US (BG data)
Food
host: mimosa or silk tree (Albizia julibrissin)(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: NC 2004(1)
Works Cited
1.First North American records of the East Palearctic seed beetle Bruchidius terrenus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae)...
E.R. Hoebeke, A.G. Wheeler, jr., J.M. Kingsolver, D.L. Stephan. 2009. Florida Entomologist 92(3): 434-440.
Contributed by v belov on 25 October, 2013 - 1:44pm
Last updated 28 October, 2013 - 1:19pm

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