Sphenophorus maidis
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S. maidis
Binomial name
Sphenophorus maidis

Sphenophorus maidis, or maize billbug, is a species of beetles in the family Curculionidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[2][3]

References

  1. "Sphenophorus maidis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  2. 1 2 "Sphenophorus maidis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  3. Jansen MA, Franz NM (2015). "Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments". ZooKeys 528: 1-133.
  • Poole, Robert W., and Patricia Gentili, eds. (1996). "Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America, vol. 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera, 41-820.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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