Rhopalotria

Rhopalotria
Rhopalotria dimidiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Belidae
Genus:	Rhopalotria Chevrolat, 1878

Rhopalotria is a genus of cycad weevils in the beetle family Belidae. There are about six described species in Rhopalotria. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Rhopalotria dimidiata

Species of Rhopalotria are pollinators of various species of Zamia in the Americas. ^[4]

Species

These six species belong to the genus Rhopalotria:

• Rhopalotria dimidiata Chevrolat, 1878
• Rhopalotria furfuraceaO'Brien & Tang, 2015
• Rhopalotria mollis (Sharp, 1890)
• Rhopalotria slossonae (Schaeffer, 1905)
• Rhopalotria slossoni (Schaeffer, 1905)
• Rhopalotria vovidesi O'Brien & Tang, 2015

References

1. "Rhopalotria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Rhopalotria". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Rhopalotria genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. Segalla, Rosane; Telles, Francismeire Jane; Pinhiero, Fabio; Morellato, Patricia (October 22, 2019). "A Review of Current Knowledge of Zamiaceae, with Emphasis on Zamia From South America". Tropical Conservation Science. 12. Mutualistic Interaction: Plant-Pollinators. doi: 10.1177/1940082919877479 .

Further reading

• O'Brien, Charles W. (1991). "Family: Allocorynidae". A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. USDA Agriculture Handbook. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.^{[ dead link ]}
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-26093-1.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 8: Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-25916-4.

External links

• Media related to Rhopalotria at Wikimedia Commons