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Species of beetle

Sciaphilus asperatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Sciaphilus
Species: S. asperatus
Binomial name
Sciaphilus asperatus
(Bonsdorff, 1785)

Sciaphilus asperatus is a species of weevil native to Europe. Larvae develop in spring and summer, as this beetle typically overwinters in its adult stage. Females lay between 450 and 700 eggs in the wild.

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Morris, M.G. (1997) Coleoptera: Curculionidae. (Entiminae). Broad-nosed Weevils. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 5(17a).
  3. Hoffmann, A. (1950, 1954, 1958) Coléoptères curculionides. Parties I, II, III. Paris: Éditions Faune de France. Bibliothèque virtuelle numérique pdfs
  4. Gosik, Rafał; Sprick, Peter; Tiahunova, Tetiana (29 August 2019). "Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology". ZooKeys (873): 65–83. Bibcode:2019ZooK..873...65G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.873.35922. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6728392. PMID 31534386.

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Taxon identifiers
Sciaphilus asperatus
Curculio asperatus


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