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Pseudolechriops

Pseudolechriops is a genus of Central American weevils alternatively placed in the subfamily Conoderinae or Baridinae. Established by the English entomologist George Charles Champion in 1906, the genus contained only one species, P. megacephala, until several related species were described in 2005.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Conoderinae
Tribe: Lechriopini
Genus: Pseudolechriops
Champion, 1906
Type species
Pseudolechriops megacephala
Champion, 1906

Pseudolechriops is a genus of Central American weevils alternatively placed in the subfamily Conoderinae or Baridinae. Established by the English entomologist George Charles Champion in 1906, the genus contained only one species, P. megacephala, until several related species were described in 2005.

Species

  • Pseudolechriops alleni Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops coleyae Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops davidsonae Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops dimorpha Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops howdenorum Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops janeae Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops klopferi Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops longinoi Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
  • Pseudolechriops megacephala Champion, 1906
  • Pseudolechriops wrightae Hespenheide & LaPierre, 2005
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