Biology:Hadroplontus litura

Short description: Species of beetle

Hadroplontus litura
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Genus:	Hadroplontus
Species:	H. litura
Binomial name
Hadroplontus litura (Fabricius, 1775)

Hadroplontus litura, the Canada thistle stem weevil, is a species of minute seed weevil in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae.

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. 
• American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0849309540. 
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732. 
• 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. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894. 

External links

• "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?name=Hadroplontus+litura. 

Wikidata ☰ Q49432626 entry