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Genus Tanysphyrus

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 Brachyceridae

Subfamily Erirhininae (Marsh Weevils)

Genus Tanysphyrus

Explanation of Names

Tanysphyrus Germar 1817

Greek 'stretched ankle'

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1)

Range

e. US and across Canada to BC and south to UT(2)

Food

leaf miners on duckweed (Lemna)(2)

Works Cited

1.	A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Curculionidae: Erirhininae O'Brien C.W., Anderson D.M. 1996. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-143f. 40 pp.

2.	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 tom murray on 20 November, 2006 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 23 January, 2013 - 12:05pm

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