Teratopactus

Teratopactus
Teratopactus vittatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Entiminae
Tribe:	Naupactini
Genus:	Teratopactus Heller, 1921

Teratopactus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the tribe Naupactini, subfamily Entiminae, primarily distributed across South America. There are about 9 described species in Teratopactus.[1][2]

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Teratopactus:[1]

• Teratopactus acerbus (Boheman, 1840)
• Teratopactus capucinus (Perty, 1832)
• Teratopactus elegans (Lucas, 1857)
• Teratopactus gibbicollis (Boheman, 1833)
• Teratopactus nodicollis (Boheman, 1833)
• Teratopactus retusus (Boheman, 1833)
• Teratopactus sulphureoviridis (Hustache, 1938)
• Teratopactus tuberculatus (Arrow, 1903)
• Teratopactus vittatus (Mannerheim, 1833)

References

1. "Teratopactus Heller, 1921". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
2. Río, M. Guadalupe del; Lanteri, Analía A.; Guedes, Jerson V. C. (2006-10-12). "Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Teratopactus Heller (Coleoptera : Curculionidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 20 (5): 585–602. doi:10.1071/IS05047. ISSN 1447-2600.

Further reading

• Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H.C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN 84-605-9994-9.
• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
• Bright, Donald E.; Bouchard, Patrice (2008). "Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 25. Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae". NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Brown, S.D.J. (2017). "Austromonticola, a new genus of broad-nosed weevil (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) from montane areas of New Zealand". ZooKeys (707): 73–130. doi:10.3897/zookeys.707.12649. PMC 5674147. PMID 29118629.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
• 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)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Teratopactus at Wikimedia Commons