Biology:Coccotrypes

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Coccotrypes
Coccotrypes dactyliperda dorsal.jpg
Coccotrypes dactyliperda
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Scolytinae
Tribe: Scolytini
Genus: Coccotrypes
Eichhoff, 1878

Coccotrypes is a genus of typical bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are about six described species in Coccotrypes.[1][2]

Coccotrypes dactyliperda

Species

References

  • 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

  • NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Coccotrypes
  • 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.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. 
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Wikidata ☰ Q14923132 entry