Coccotrypes advena

Coccotrypes advena is a species in the family Curculionidae ("snout and bark beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles").[1][2] A common name for Coccotrypes advena is "seed borer".[3] Coccotrypes advena probably originates from Southeast Asia, but is now found in North America.[4]

Coccotrypes advena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Coccotrypes
Species:
C. advena
Binomial name
Coccotrypes advena
Blandford, 1894

References

  1. "Coccotrypes advena species information". bugguide.net. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. "Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)". itis.gov. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. "Encyclopedia of Life Coccotrypes advena species overview". eol.org. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  4. Wood, Stephen L. (1977). "Introduced and exported American Scolytidae (Coleoptera)". The Great Basin Naturalist. 37 (1): 67–74. JSTOR 41711552.

Further reading

  • American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. 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.
  • Peterson Field Guides: Beetles, Richard E. White. 1983. Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • 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.


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