Sciaphilus asperatus is a species of weevil native to Europe.[1][2][3] Larvae develop in spring and summer, as this beetle typically overwinters in its adult stage. Females lay between 450 and 700 eggs in the wild.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Sciaphilus |
| Species: | S. asperatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785)
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References edit
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Morris, M.G. (1997) Coleoptera: Curculionidae. (Entiminae). Broad-nosed Weevils. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 5(17a).
- ^ Hoffmann, A. (1950, 1954, 1958) Coléoptères curculionides. Parties I, II, III. Paris: Éditions Faune de France. Bibliothèque virtuelle numérique pdfs
- ^ Gosik, Rafał; Sprick, Peter; Tiahunova, Tetiana (29 August 2019). "Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology". ZooKeys (873): 65–83. Bibcode:2019ZooK..873...65G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.873.35922. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 6728392. PMID 31534386.
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