Sciaphilus asperatus

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Sciaphilus asperatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Sciaphilus
Species:
S. asperatus
Binomial name
Sciaphilus asperatus
(Bonsdorff, 1785)

Sciaphilus asperatus is a species of weevil native to Europe. [1] [2] [3] Larvae develop in spring and summer, as this beetle typically overwinters in its adult stage. Females lay between 450 and 700 eggs in the wild. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  2. ↑ Morris, M.G. (1997) Coleoptera: Curculionidae. (Entiminae). Broad-nosed Weevils. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 5(17a).
  3. ↑ Hoffmann, A. (1950, 1954, 1958) Coléoptères curculionides. Parties I, II, III. Paris: Éditions Faune de France. Bibliothèque virtuelle numérique pdfs Archived 2017-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Gosik, Rafał; Sprick, Peter; Tiahunova, Tetiana (29 August 2019). "Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology". ZooKeys (873): 65–83. Bibcode:2019ZooK..873...65G. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.873.35922 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   6728392 . PMID   31534386.


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