Pissodes
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Pissodes is a genus of weevil
described by Ernst Friedrich Germar
in 1817.
Species of Pissodes include:
Weevil
A weevil is any beetle from the Curculionoidea superfamily. They are usually small, less than , and herbivorous. There are over 60,000 species in several families, mostly in the family Curculionidae...
described by Ernst Friedrich Germar
Ernst Friedrich Germar
Ernst Friedrich Germar was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.Amongst Germar’s publications...
in 1817.
Species of Pissodes include:
- Pissodes castaneus
- Pissodes gyllenhali
- Pissodes harcyniae
- Pissodes notatus
- Pissodes piceae
- Pissodes pini
- Pissodes piniphilus
- Pissodes scabricollis
- Pissodes strobiPissodes strobiPissodes strobi, known as the white pine weevil or Engelmann spruce weevil, is the primary weevil attacking and destroying white pines. It was described in 1817 by William Dandridge Peck, professor of natural history and botany at Harvard University...
- Pissodes validirostris