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Involvulus

Involvulus is a genus of leaf and bud weevils in the beetle family Attelabidae. There are more than 40 described species in Involvulus. The genus was first described in 1798 by Franz von Paula Schrank who specified the type species as Involvulus metallicus which is considered to be Involvulus cupreus.

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Involvulus
Involvulus caeruleus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Curculionoidea
Family: Attelabidae
Tribe: Rhynchitini
Genus: Involvulus
Schrank, 1798
Involulus liquidus (holotype) source ↗

Involvulus is a genus of leaf and bud weevils in the beetle family Attelabidae. There are more than 40 described species in Involvulus.123 The genus was first described in 1798 by Franz von Paula Schrank who specified the type species as Involvulus metallicus which is considered to be Involvulus cupreus.4

Species

These and other species belong to the genus Involvulus:

  • Involvulus aerosus Voss, 1958
  • Involvulus aethiops Formánek, 1911
  • Involvulus apionoidess Sharp, 1889)
  • Involvulus asperulicollis Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus baojiensis Legalov, 2007
  • Involvulus berezovskyi (Legalov, 2007)
  • Involvulus caeruleus (De Geer, 1775)
  • Involvulus carinaticollis Voss, 1958
  • Involvulus cinctellus Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus cognatus Voss, 1958
  • Involvulus commutatus Voss, 1969
  • Involvulus conjunctulus Voss, 1959
  • Involvulus continentalis Voss, 1958
  • Involvulus coorgensis Voss, 1957
  • Involvulus cupreus (Linnaeus & C., 1758)
  • Involvulus dentatus Voss, 1953
  • Involvulus dundai Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus egenus (Voss, 1933)
  • Involvulus foochowensis Voss, 1960
  • Involvulus germanicus Kuhnt, 1911
  • Involvulus hauseri Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus hirtus (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Involvulus immixtus Voss, 1969
  • Involvulus intrusus Voss, 1957
  • Involvulus iranensis Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus kangdingensis Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus kaszabi Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus kozlovi Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus legalovi Alonso-Zarazaga, 2011
  • Involvulus liesenfeldti Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus liquidus Voss, 1957
  • Involvulus maduranus Voss, 1955
  • Involvulus nalandaicus Voss
  • Involvulus nathani Voss, 1957
  • Involvulus nigrocyaneus Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus parilis Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus potanini Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus przhevalskyi Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus pubescens (J.C.Fabricius, 1775)
  • Involvulus rottensis Zherikhin, 1992
  • Involvulus schochrini Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus semiruberrimus Voss, 1969
  • Involvulus setosellus Voss, 1962
  • Involvulus siwalikensis Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus szechuanensis Voss, 1956
  • Involvulus teldeniyana Voss, 1957
  • Involvulus wegneri Voss, 1957
  • Involvulus xiahensis Alonso-Zarazaga
  • Involvulus zhondiensis Alonso-Zarazaga
References

References

  1. "Involvulus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Involvulus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. Miguel Ángel Alonso-Zarazaga (2017). "Cooperative Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera Curculionidea". Monografias electrónicas SEA. 8 (1): 61. ISSN 2386-5318. Wikidata Q108438872.
Further reading

Further reading

  • 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.