Bruchus

Bruchus
Bruchus brachialis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Bruchinae
Tribe: Bruchini
Genus: Bruchus
Linnaeus, 1767
Species

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Bruchus is a genus of beetles in the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. They are distributed mainly in the Palearctic,[1] especially in Europe.[2] Several occur in other parts of the world, such as North America, Africa, and Australia, as introduced species.[1] Several species are notorious agricultural pests.

The genus is part of the subfamily Bruchinae. Members of the subfamily are known commonly as bean weevils. Many authors prefer to call them seed-beetles or bean beetles, because they are not true weevils, and because in most species, the larvae develop inside seeds, particularly beans.[3][4] Because Bruchinae was known as the family Bruchidae until the 1990s,[1] they are sometimes still called bruchid beetles.

  1. ^ a b c Kergoat, G. J., et al. (2007). Defining the limits of taxonomic conservatism in host–plant use for phytophagous insects: Molecular systematics and evolution of host–plant associations in the seed-beetle genus Bruchus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(1), 251-69.
  2. ^ Kergoat, G. J., et al. (2004). Phylogeny and host-specificity of European seed beetles (Coleoptera, Bruchidae), new insights from molecular and ecological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32(3), 855-65.
  3. ^ Kergoat, G. J. and N. Alvarez. (2008). Assessing the phylogenetic usefulness of a previously neglected morphological structure through elliptic Fourier analyses: a case study in Bruchus seed-beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae). Systematic Entomology 33(2), 289-300.
  4. ^ Tuda, M. (2007). Applied evolutionary ecology of insects of the subfamily Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 42(3), 337-46.