Mononychus
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Mononychus Germar, 1824 |
Mononychus is a genus of minute seed weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There are at least 25 described species in Mononychus.[1][2][3]
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Including Mononychus punctumalbum (Iris Weevil).[4]
They have generally been found in north America, Europe and parts of Central Asia.[5]
They were originally published by E.F.Germar in Insectorum species novae aut minus cognitae, p. 241 in 1823.[5]
Species
[edit]These 25 species belong to the genus Mononychus:
- Mononychus algerinus Gandolphe, c
- Mononychus amurensis Schultze, 1898 c
- Mononychus angustus Schultze, 1899 c
- Mononychus caucasicus Kolen., 1859 c
- Mononychus euphraticus Schultze, 1897 c
- Mononychus interponens Schultze, 1901 c
- Mononychus interruptus Schultze, 1901 c
- Mononychus ireos (Pallas, P.S., 1773) c g
- Mononychus kolenatii Kolen., 1859 c
- Mononychus pallidicornis Pic, 1900 c
- Mononychus pseudacori Schoenherr, 1825 c
- Mononychus punctumalbum (Herbst, J.F.W., 1784) c g
- Mononychus quadrifossulatus Chevr., 1872 c
- Mononychus rondoui Vuillet, 1911 c
- Mononychus salviae Germar, 1824 c
- Mononychus schönherri Kolen., 1859 c
- Mononychus spermaticus Beck., 1862 c
- Mononychus sulcatocarinulatus Schultze, 1901 c
- Mononychus superciliaris Boheman, 1844 c
- Mononychus syriacus Redtenbacher, 1843 c
- Mononychus tangerianus Chevr., 1872 c
- Mononychus thompsoni Korotyaev, 1981 c
- Mononychus variegatus Brullé, 1838 c
- Mononychus vittatus Faldermann, 1835 c
- Mononychus vulpeculus (Fabricius, 1801) i c g b (iris weevil)
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Mononychus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Browse Mononychus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Mononychus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ "Mononychus punctumalbum : Iris Weevil | NBN Atlas". species.nbnatlas.org. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ a b c "Mononychus". GBIF. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
Further reading
[edit]- 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). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
- 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.
- O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
[edit]Media related to Mononychus at Wikimedia Commons