Amalus
Appearance
Amalus | |
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Amalus scortillum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Tribe: | Ceutorhynchini |
Genus: | Amalus Schönherr, 1825 |
Amalus is a genus of minute seed weevils in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 2 described species in Amalus.[1][2][3]
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Species
[edit]- Amalus haemorrhous (Herbst, 1795)
- Amalus scortillum Schoenherr, 1825
References
[edit]- ^ "Amalus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ "Amalus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ Jansen MA, Franz NM (2015). "Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments". ZooKeys 528: 1-133.
- Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., and Christopher H. C. Lyal (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae), 315.
- Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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