Hypera

Hypera
Hypera diversipunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Curculionidae
Subfamily:Hyperinae
Genus:Hypera
Germar, 1817
Diversity
at least 280 species
Synonyms[1]
  • Phytonomus Schönherr, 1823

Hypera is a genus of clover and alfalfa weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There are at least 280 described species in Hypera.[1][2][3][4][5]

Hypera rumicis

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Hypera Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ↑ "Browse Hypera". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  3. ↑ "Hypera". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  4. ↑ "Hypera Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  5. ↑ "Hypera Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-20.

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. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

  • Media related to Hypera at Wikimedia Commons


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