Bruchidius: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Bruchidius
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bruchidius
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bruchidius
Bruchidius is a genus of beetles in the bean weevil subfamily (Bruchinae) of the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. Most are native to the Old World.
The larvae of these beetles often feed on plants of the legume family, Fabaceae. The species Bruchidius siliquastri, for example, is a seed beetle named for its host, the Judas tree (Cercis siliquastrum). It lives on other Cercis species, as well. One of several groups within the genus, the B. centromaculatus group, are mostly limited to acacias. The genus can also be found on plants of the carrot and parsley family, Apiaceae, and the aster family, Asteraceae.
There are around 300 species in this genus.
Species include:
- Bruchidius antennatus (Wollastone, 1864)
- Bruchidius biguttatus (Olivier, 1795)
- Bruchidius brincki Decelle, 1975
- Bruchidius chloroticus (Dalman, 1833)
- Bruchidius cisti (Fabricius, 1775)
- Bruchidius endotubercularis
- Bruchidius faroensis
- Bruchidius holosericeus (Schönherr, 1832)
- Bruchidius lichenicola (Wollaston, 1854)
- Bruchidius lineatopygus
- Bruchidius lutescens (Blanchard, 1844)
- Bruchidius meridionalis Anton & Delobel, 2003
- Bruchidius nodieri
- Bruchidius obscurevittatus
- Bruchidius pauper (Boheman, 1829)
- Bruchidius raddianae Anton & Delobel, 2003
- Bruchidius siliquastri Delobel, 2007
- Bruchidius simulans
- Bruchidius unicolor (Olivier, 1795)
- Bruchidius villosus (Fabricius, 1792) – Scotch broom bruchid
Bruchidius in languages:
- Chinese
- 豆象屬
- Lithuanian
- Ankštinukai
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Bruchidius annulicornis
- Bruchidius anobioides
- Bruchidius astragali
- Bruchidius biguttatus
- Bruchidius bimaculatus
- Bruchidius chloroticus
- Bruchidius cinerascens
- Bruchidius cisti
- Bruchidius comptus
- Bruchidius dispar
- Bruchidius foveolatus
- Bruchidius imbricornis
- Bruchidius japonicus
- Bruchidius lautus
- Bruchidius lividimanus
- Bruchidius lukjanovitschi
- Bruchidius marginalis
- Bruchidius martinezi
- Bruchidius murinus
- Bruchidius myobromae
- Bruchidius nudus
- Bruchidius olivaceus
- Bruchidius orchesioides
- Bruchidius poecilus
- Bruchidius pusillus
- Bruchidius raddianae
- Bruchidius seminarius
- Bruchidius siliquastri
- Bruchidius terrenus
- Bruchidius tibialis
- Bruchidius unicolor
- Bruchidius varius
- Bruchidius villosus






























































































































































