Perapion

Perapion
Perapion curtirostre
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Brentidae
Tribe:Aplemonini
Genus:Perapion
Wagner, 1907

Perapion is a genus of pear-shaped weevils in the family of beetles known as Brentidae. There are about 12 described species in Perapion.[1][2][3][4]

Perapion curtirostre

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Perapion:

  • Perapion antiquum (Gyllenhal, 1833) i g
  • Perapion connexum (Schilsky, 1902) g
  • Perapion curtirostre (Germar, 1817) g b
  • Perapion ilvense (Wagner, 1905) g
  • Perapion jacobsoni (Wagner, 1910) g
  • Perapion lemoroi (C.Brisout de Barneville, 1880) g
  • Perapion neofallax (Warner, 1958) i g
  • Perapion pulchrum b
  • Perapion punctinasum (J.B.Smith, 1884) g b
  • Perapion subviolaceum (Desbrochers, 1908) g
  • Perapion violaceum (Kirby, 1808) i
  • Perapion wickhami (Kissinger, 1960) g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Perapion Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. 1 2 "Perapion". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. 1 2 "Perapion Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  4. ↑ "Perapion Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  5. ↑ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-06.

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.
  • 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. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca, eds. (2004). 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.

  • Media related to Perapion at Wikimedia Commons


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