Mononychus

This article is about the beetle. For the dinosaur, see Mononykus.

Mononychus
Mononychus punctumalbum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Genus:	Mononychus Germar, 1824

Mononychus is a genus of minute seed weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There are at least 25 described species in Mononychus. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Mononychus punctumalbum

Including Mononychus punctumalbum (Iris Weevil). ^[4]

They have generally been found in North America, Europe and parts of Central Asia. ^[5]

They were originally published by E.F.Germar in Insectorum species novae aut minus cognitae, p. 241 in 1823. ^[5]

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Mononychus:

• Mononychus algerinus Gandolphe, ^c
• Mononychus amurensis Schultze, 1898 ^c
• Mononychus angustus Schultze, 1899 ^c
• Mononychus caucasicus Kolen., 1859 ^c
• Mononychus euphraticus Schultze, 1897 ^c
• Mononychus interponens Schultze, 1901 ^c
• Mononychus interruptus Schultze, 1901 ^c
• Mononychus ireos (Pallas, P.S., 1773) ^{c g}
• Mononychus kolenatii Kolen., 1859 ^c
• Mononychus pallidicornis Pic, 1900 ^c
• Mononychus pseudacori Schoenherr, 1825 ^c
• Mononychus punctumalbum (Herbst, J.F.W., 1784) ^{c g}
• Mononychus quadrifossulatus Chevr., 1872 ^c
• Mononychus rondoui Vuillet, 1911 ^c
• Mononychus salviae Germar, 1824 ^c
• Mononychus schönherri Kolen., 1859 ^c
• Mononychus spermaticus Beck., 1862 ^c
• Mononychus sulcatocarinulatus Schultze, 1901 ^c
• Mononychus superciliaris Boheman, 1844 ^c
• Mononychus syriacus Redtenbacher, 1843 ^c
• Mononychus tangerianus Chevr., 1872 ^c
• Mononychus thompsoni Korotyaev, 1981 ^c
• Mononychus variegatus Brullé, 1838 ^c
• Mononychus vittatus Faldermann, 1835 ^c
• Mononychus vulpeculus (Fabricius, 1801) ^{i c g b} (iris weevil)

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[2] g = GBIF, ^[5] b = Bugguide.net ^[3]

References

1. "Mononychus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
2. "Browse Mononychus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
3. "Mononychus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
4. "Mononychus punctumalbum : Iris Weevil | NBN Atlas". species.nbnatlas.org. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
5. "Mononychus". GBIF. Retrieved 27 April 2018.

Further reading

• Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H.C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN   84-605-9994-9.
• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Mononychus at Wikimedia Commons