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Genus Pelenomus

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 Phytobiini

Genus Pelenomus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mecopeltus Dietz 1896

Explanation of Names

Pelenomus Thomson 1859

Numbers

13 spp. in our area, 24 total(1)

Range

holarctic(1)

Remarks

the transpalaearctic P. waltoni discovered in se. ON 1986(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.	Some Palearctic weevils in the subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) recently discovered in North America Anderson R.S., Korotyaev B.A. 2004. Can. Entomol. 136: 233–239.

Contributed by tom murray on 1 December, 2006 - 10:55pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 31 December, 2023 - 3:15pm

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