Cylas
Appearance
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Cylas formicarius | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Brentidae |
Subfamily: | Cyladinae |
Genus: | Cylas Latreille, 1802 |
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Cylas is a genus of sweet potato weevils in the family of beetles known as Brentidae. There are at least 20 described species in Cylas.[1][2][3][4]
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Species
These 24 species belong to the genus Cylas:
- Cylas aeneus Hustache, 1922 i g
- Cylas brunneus (Olivier, 1790) i g
- Cylas coimbatorensis (Subramanian, 1958) i g
- Cylas compressus Hartmann, 1899 i g
- Cylas curtipennis Fairmaire, 1884 i g
- Cylas cyanescens Boheman, 1833 i g
- Cylas femoralis Faust, 1898 i g
- Cylas formicarius (Fabricius, 1798) i g b (sweet potato weevil)
- Cylas freyi Voss, 1966 i g
- Cylas glabripennis Hartmann, 1897 i g
- Cylas hovanus Hustache, 1933 i g
- Cylas impunctatus Faust, 1891 i g
- Cylas laevicollis Boheman, 1833 i g
- Cylas laevigatus Fåhraeus, 1871 i g
- Cylas longicollis Guérin-Méneville, 1833 i g
- Cylas nigrocoerulans Fairmaire, 1902 i g
- Cylas nitens Hustache, 1929 i g
- Cylas pumilus Marshall, 1953 i g
- Cylas puncticollis Boheman, 1833 i
- Cylas robustus Faust, 1895 i g
- Cylas rufipes Faust, 1893 i g
- Cylas semipunctatus Fåhraeus, 1871 i g
- Cylas submetallicus Desbrochers des Loges, 1890 i g
- Cylas vandenplasi Burgeon, 1936 i g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[2] b = Bugguide.net[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Cylas Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ a b "Cylas". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ a b "Cylas Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ "Cylas Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-12.
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. 88 (88). Pensoft Publishers. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 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.
External links
Media related to Cylas at Wikimedia Commons