Biology:Orchestes testaceus

Short description: Species of beetle

Orchestes testaceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Curculioninae
Genus:	Orchestes
Species:	O. testaceus
Binomial name
Orchestes testaceus (Muller, 1776)

Orchestes testaceus, known generally as the alder flea weevil or alder jumping weevil, is a species of flea weevil in the family Curculionidae.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., ed (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.. 
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1. 
• Richard E. White (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.. 
• "Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments". ZooKeys (528): 1–133. 2015. doi:10.3897/zookeys.528.6001. PMID 26692791. 

External links

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

Wikidata ☰ Q48973387 entry