Stenopterapion

Stenopterapion
Stenopterapion meliloti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Brentidae
Subtribe:	Synapiina
Genus:	Stenopterapion Bokor, 1923

Stenopterapion is a genus of pear-shaped weevils in the family of beetles known as Brentidae. There are about six described species in Stenopterapion. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Stenopterapion meliloti

Species

These six species belong to the genus Stenopterapion:

• Stenopterapion cantabricum (Desbrochers des Loges, 1869) ^g
• Stenopterapion dubium (Desbrochers, 1896) ^g
• Stenopterapion intermedium (Eppelsheim, 1875) ^g
• Stenopterapion meliloti (Kirby, 1808) ^{g b}
• Stenopterapion scutellare (Kirby, 1811) ^g
• Stenopterapion subsquamosum (Desbrochers, 1891) ^g

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[4] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[5] g = GBIF, ^[1] b = Bugguide.net ^[2]

References

1. "Stenopterapion". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
2. "Stenopterapion Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
3. "Stenopterapion Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-04-09.
5. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-04-09.

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 Stenopterapion at Wikimedia Commons