Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Gibbobruchus

Gibbobruchus mimus (Say) - Gibbobruchus mimus - female Flea beetle - Gibbobruchus mimus Pea/Bean Weevil? - Gibbobruchus mimus Rotund beetle - Gibbobruchus mimus blobby beetle - Gibbobruchus mimus Brown wrinkled  bug - Gibbobruchus mimus Brown wrinkled  bug - Gibbobruchus mimus Bruchidae - Gibbobruchus mimus
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 Gibbobruchus
Explanation of Names
Gibbobruchus Pic 1913
Numbers
3 spp. in our area(1)
Range
US to Brazil; in our area, G. mimus is widespread (PA & ON to FL west to WI-IA-KS-NV-AZ), while the other two are restricted to TX(1)
Food
host plants are Bauhinia & Cercis spp.; adults often found on flowers of many other plants(1)
Works Cited
1.Handbook of the Bruchidae of the United States and Canada
Kingsolver J.M. 2004. USDA Tech. Bull. 1912 (2 vols.).