Sitona californius | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Sitona |
Species: | S. californius
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Binomial name | |
Sitona californius (Fahraeus, 1840)
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Sitona californius is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae.[1][2]
The species was described by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in 1843 and spelled as Sitona californicus. This spelling was later abandoned.[3]
Sitona californius is found in North America.[1]It can be found in the Nearctic[4] and in US states such as Arizona and California. In California the species were recorded between March 5, 1925, and February 1, 1926, at Monterey County, Carmel while in Arizona it was found in Pima County in the Santa Rita Mountains.[5]
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