Cnestus Sampson, 1911

Gomez, Demian F., Rabaglia, Robert J., Fairbanks, Katherine E. O. & Hulcr, Jiri, 2018, North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae), ZooKeys 768, pp. 19-68 : 27

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.768.24697

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scientific name

Cnestus Sampson, 1911
status

 

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Tosaxyleborus Murayama, 1950. Synonymy Browne 1955.

Type species.

Cnestus magnus Sampson

Species of Cnestus differ from other members of the tribe by the truncate elytra, which are shorter than the pronotum.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae