Acoptus
Acoptus is a genus of true weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There is one described species in Acoptus, A. suturalis, found in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.[1][2][3] It can commonly be found near beaver dams.[4]
| Acoptus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Acoptus |
| Species: | A. suturalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acoptus suturalis LeConte, 1876 | |
References
- "Acoptus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- "Acoptus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- "Genus Acoptus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- Mourant, Alexandre; Lecomte, Nicolas; Moreau, Gaétan (2020-12-07). "Size matters: When resource accessibility by ecosystem engineering elicits wood‐boring beetle demographic responses". Ecology and Evolution. Wiley. 11 (2): 784–795. doi:10.1002/ece3.7079. ISSN 2045-7758. S2CID 230606429.
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 2019-05-06.
- 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.
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