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Trichobaris

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Trichobaris
Trichobaris mucorea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Baridinae
Tribe: Baridini
Genus: Trichobaris
LeConte, 1876

Trichobaris is a genus of flower weevils in the family Curculionidae. There are 8 to 13 species in genus Trichobaris.[1]

These weevils feed on plants in the family Solanaceae, including cultivated plants such as tomato, potato, and tobacco.[1] They likely evolved in association with plants of genus Datura.[1]

Species

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Species include:[2][3]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c De la Mora, M., et al. 2018. Evolution of Trichobaris (Curculionidae) in relation to host plants: Geometric morphometrics, phylogeny and phylogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 124, pp 37-49.
  2. ^ "Trichobaris Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Trichobaris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

References

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  • 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

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  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • 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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