| Acoptus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Acoptus |
| Species: | A. suturalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Acoptus suturalis LeConte, 1876
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Acoptus is a genus of true weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There is one described species in Acoptus, A. suturalis, found in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.123 It can commonly be found near beaver dams.4
References
References
- "Acoptus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- "Acoptus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- "Genus Acoptus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- Mourant, Alexandre; Lecomte, Nicolas; Moreau, Gaétan (2020-12-07). "Size matters: When resource accessibility by ecosystem engineering elicits wood-boring beetle demographic responses". Ecology and Evolution. 11 (2). Wiley: 784–795. doi:10.1002/ece3.7079. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 7820143. PMID 33520166. S2CID 230606429.
Further reading
Further reading
- 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)" (PDF). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-24. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26093-1.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 8: Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-25916-4.