Pissodes
| Pissodes | |
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| Pissodes notatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Tribe: | Pissodini |
| Genus: | Pissodes Germar, 1817 |
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Pissodes is a genus of weevils described by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1817.
These insects live on conifers.[1] They are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, their distribution mirroring that of plants in the Pinaceae, the pine family, which includes most of their host trees.[2]
A few Pissodes species are considered to be pests, such as Pissodes strobi, P. nemorensis, and P. terminalis, because they do significant damage to trees.[2]
As of 2007 there are 46 species in the genus.[3]
Species of Pissodes include:[4]
- Pissodes castaneus
- Pissodes cheni[2]
- Pissodes gyllenhali
- Pissodes harcyniae
- Pissodes nemorensis
- Pissodes nitidus
- Pissodes notatus
- Pissodes piceae
- Pissodes pilatsquamosus[2]
- Pissodes pini
- Pissodes piniphilus
- Pissodes scabricollis
- Pissodes strobi
- Pissodes terminalis
- Pissodes validirostris
- Pissodes webbi
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- ↑ O'Brien, C. W. (1989). Revision of the weevil genus Pissodes in Mexico with notes on Neotropical Pissodini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 415-32.
- 1 2 3 4 Lu, X., Zhang, R., & Langor, D. W. (2007). Two new species of Pissodes (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from China, with notes on Palearctic species. The Canadian Entomologist 139(2), 179-88.
- ↑ Lu, X. and RunZhi, Z. (2007). Species, distribution and host plants of genus Pissodes (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and its potential invasive threat. Scientia Silvae Sinicae 43(9), 38-43.
- ↑ Pissodes. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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