Coniatus

Coniatus
Coniatus tamarisci, from Calwer's Käferbuch, Table 32, Picture 5.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Hyperinae
Tribe:	Hyperini
Genus:	Coniatus Germar, 1817[1]
Species
Several, including: Coniatus elegans Coniatus tamarisci

Coniatus is a genus of true weevils in the subfamily Hyperinae. Species have a palaearctic distribution in Eurasia, Africa and America. There are also fossil species known from the Cenozoic.

References

1. Reise nach Dalmatien und in das Gebiet von Ragusa. EF Germar, 1817

• Capiomont, G. 1867: Révision de la Tribu des Hypérides, Lacordaire, et en particulier des genres Hypera Germ., Limobius, Schönh. et Coniatus (Germ.) Schönh. renfermant la description de plusieurs genres nouveaux et de 85 espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (4)7(3): 417–456 + pl. 11–12.

External links

• Media related to Coniatus at Wikimedia Commons
• "Coniatus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• Coniatus at insectoid.info