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 | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Acoptus |
| Species: | A. suturalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Acoptus suturalis LeConte, 1876
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References
edit- ^ "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. 11 (2). Wiley: 784–795. doi:10.1002/ece3.7079. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 7820143. PMID 33520166. S2CID 230606429.
Further reading
edit- 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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