Peritelinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Curculionoidea
Family:
Curculionidae
Subfamily:
Entiminae
Tribe:
Peritelini
Genus:
Peritelinus

Peritelinus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 3 described species in Peritelinus.[1][2]

Species

  • Peritelinus erinaceus Van Dyke, 1936
  • Peritelinus oregonus Van Dyke, 1936
  • Peritelinus variegatus Casey, 1888

References

  1. ↑ "Peritelinus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Peritelinus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  • 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

  • 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.


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