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Genus Trichosirocalus

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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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)
Tribe Ceutorhynchini
Genus Trichosirocalus
Explanation of Names
Trichosirocalus Colonnelli 1979
Numbers
A single (adventive) species in our area(1), 17 spp. total(2)
Range
native to w. Palaearctic(2), imported in NA (VA)(1)
Food
on Asteraceae and Plantaginaceae(2)
Remarks
introduced to control thistles(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.
2.Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae)
Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 20 November, 2006 - 5:59pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 25 January, 2013 - 9:13pm

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