Amalus

Amalus
Amalus scortillum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Tribe:	Ceutorhynchini
Genus:	Amalus Schönherr, 1825

Amalus is a genus of minute seed weevils in the family Curculionidae. There are at least 2 described species in Amalus.[1][2][3]

Amalus scortillum

Species

• Amalus haemorrhous (Herbst, 1795)
• Amalus scortillum Schoenherr, 1825

References

1. "Amalus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
2. "Amalus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
3. Jansen MA, Franz NM (2015). "Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments". ZooKeys 528: 1-133.

• Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., and Christopher H. C. Lyal (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae), 315.
• Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.