Perapion
Appearance
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Perapion curtirostre | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Brentidae |
Tribe: | Aplemonini |
Genus: | Perapion Wagner, 1907 |
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Perapion is a genus of pear-shaped weevils in the beetle family Brentidae.[1][2]

Species
[edit]The following species are recognised in the genus Perapion:[3]
- Apion profundum (von Schlechtendal, 1894)
- Perapion affine (Kirby, 1808)
- Perapion antiquum (Gyllenhal, 1833)
- Perapion connexum (Schilsky, 1902)
- Perapion curtirostre (Germar, 1817)
- Perapion defensum (Faust, 1887)
- Perapion ehreti Legalov, 2000
- Perapion horvathi (Schilsky, 1901)
- Perapion hydrolapathi (Marsham, 1802)
- Perapion ilvense (Wagner, 1905)
- Perapion jacobsoni (Wagner, 1910)
- Perapion (Perapion) jelineki (Bajtenov & Fremuth, 1981)
- Perapion lemoroi (C.Brisout de Barneville, 1880)
- Perapion marchicum (Herbst, 1797)
- Perapion (Perapion) marseuli (Wencker, 1864)
- Perapion menatensis Legalov, Nel & Kirejtshuk, 2017
- Perapion neofallax (Warner, 1958)
- Perapion oblongum (Gyllenhal, 1827)
- Perapion punctinasum (J.B.Smith, 1884)
- Perapion rasnitsyni Legalov, 2018
- Perapion sedi
- Perapion subviolaceum (Desbrochers, 1908)
- Perapion terminassianae Legalov, 2000
- Perapion violaceum (Kirby, 1808)
- Perapion wickhami (Kissinger, 1960)
References
[edit]- ^ "Perapion Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Perapion Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Perapion Wagner, 1907". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2025-04-08.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
- Kissinger, David G. (1968). Curculionidae Subfamily Apioninae of North and Central America: With Reviews of the World Genera of Apioninae and World Subgenera of Apion Herbst (Coleoptera).
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca (2004). Sforzi, Alessandra; Bartolozzi, Luca (eds.). Brentidae of the world (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea). Monographie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. ISBN 88-86041-35-7. ISSN 1121-7545.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
[edit]Media related to Perapion at Wikimedia Commons