Aphrastus
| Aphrastus | |
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| Aphrastus taeniatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Coleoptera
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| Suborder: | |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea
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| Genus: | Aphrastus
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Aphrastus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 3 described species in Aphrastus.[1][2]
Aphrastus taeniatus
Species[]
- Blatchley, 1916
- Aphrastus taeniatus Say, 1831
- Aphrastus unicolor Horn, 1876
References[]
- ^ "Aphrastus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Aphrastus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., and Christopher H. C. Lyal (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae), 315.
- Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.
Further reading[]
- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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