Perapion

Perapion
Perapion curtirostre
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Brentidae
Tribe:	Aplemonini
Genus:	Perapion Wagner, 1907
Synonyms
List EroosapionEhret, 1994 HemiperapionWagner, 1930 ParapionBokor, 1923 PeripionBeguin-Billeococq, 1910 PexapionSchubert, 1957 RhaphidoplectronAlonso-Zarazaga, 1991

Perapion is a genus of pear-shaped weevils in the beetle family Brentidae. ^{[1] [2]}

Perapion curtirostre

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Perapion: ^[3]

• Apion profundum (von Schlechtendal, 1894)
• Perapion affine (Kirby, 1808)
• Perapion antiquum (Gyllenhal, 1833)
• Perapion connexum (Schilsky, 1902)
• Perapion curtirostre (Germar, 1817)
• Perapion defensum (Faust, 1887)
• Perapion ehreti Legalov, 2000
• Perapion horvathi (Schilsky, 1901)
• Perapion hydrolapathi (Marsham, 1802)
• Perapion ilvense (Wagner, 1905)
• Perapion jacobsoni (Wagner, 1910)
• Perapion (Perapion) jelineki (Bajtenov & Fremuth, 1981)
• Perapion lemoroi (C.Brisout de Barneville, 1880)
• Perapion marchicum (Herbst, 1797)
• Perapion (Perapion) marseuli (Wencker, 1864)
• Perapion menatensis Legalov, Nel & Kirejtshuk, 2017
• Perapion neofallax (Warner, 1958)
• Perapion oblongum (Gyllenhal, 1827)
• Perapion punctinasum (J.B.Smith, 1884)
• Perapion rasnitsyni Legalov, 2018
• Perapion sedi
• Perapion subviolaceum (Desbrochers, 1908)
• Perapion terminassianae Legalov, 2000
• Perapion violaceum (Kirby, 1808)
• Perapion wickhami (Kissinger, 1960)

References

1. "Perapion Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
2. "Perapion Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
3. "Perapion Wagner, 1907". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-04-08.

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. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
• Kissinger, David G. (1968). Curculionidae Subfamily Apioninae of North and Central America: With Reviews of the World Genera of Apioninae and World Subgenera of Apion Herbst (Coleoptera).
• 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.
• Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca (2004). Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca (eds.). Brentidae of the world (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Monographie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. ISBN   88-86041-35-7. ISSN   1121-7545.
• 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 Perapion at Wikimedia Commons