Species Hypurus bertrandi

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Works Cited

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)

Genus Hypurus

Species bertrandi (Hypurus bertrandi)

Explanation of Names

Hypurus bertrandi (Perris 1852)

Range

subcosmopolitan, of Old World origin(1); in our area, FL & CA(2)

Food

host: Portulaca oleracea and sometimes other Portulacaceae(2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae) Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 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 v belov on 4 February, 2014 - 4:07pm
Last updated 6 February, 2014 - 8:46am

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