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Genus Cossonus

weevil - Cossonus platalea beetle - Cossonus Cossonus sp. - Cossonus platalea Blackish weevil - Cossonus small weevil - Cossonus corticola Cossoninae - Cossonus corticola Cossonus crenatus? - Cossonus crenatus Cossonus crenatus? - Cossonus crenatus
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 Cossoninae
Tribe Cossonini
Genus Cossonus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
genus needs revision(1)
Explanation of Names
Cossonus Clairville 1798
Numbers
20 spp. in our area(1)
Range
Across the continent(1)
Habitat
adults under bark, mostly on conifers(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.