Alniphagus

Alniphagus is a genus of crenulate bark beetles in the family Curculionidae. There are about eight described species in Alniphagus.^[1][2][3]

Alniphagus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Tribe:	Hylesinini
Genus:	Alniphagus Swaine, 1918

Species

These eight species belong to the genus Alniphagus:

• Alniphagus africanus Schedl, 1963h
• Alniphagus alni Wood & Bright, 1992
• Alniphagus aspericollis (LeConte, 1876) (alder bark beetle)
• Alniphagus costatus Mandelshtam, Petrov & Barclay, 2008
• Alniphagus hirsutus Schedl, 1949
• Alniphagus imitator Sokanovskii & B.V., 1958
• Alniphagus padus Beeson, 1961
• Alniphagus scutulatus Schedl, 1963

References

1. "Alniphagus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Alniphagus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. "Alniphagus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

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 2019-09-25.
• 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.