Sitona: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Sitona
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Sitona
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sitona
Sitona is a large genus of weevils in the family Curculionidae native to the Nearctic and Palaearctic regions. Over 100 species have been described. Sitona is easily distinguished from related genera by flat, recumbent scales on the mandibles, by the absence of an oval scar on the mandibles, by short and broad rostrum with a deep, longitudinal, median groove, and by dense scales on the body.
Sitona specialize on legumes, plants of the family Fabaceae. The larvae eat the root nodules and the adults eat the leaves. Several species of Sitona are important agricultural pests of legumes, especially in its native regions and introduced populations in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Species include:
...Sitona in languages:
- Czech
- listopas
- Estonian
- Hernekärsakad
- Finnish
- hernekärsäkkäät
- French
- Sitones
- German
- Blattrandkäfer
- German
- Graurüssler
- Korean
- 들바구미속
- Lithuanian
- Sitonai
- Russian
- Долгоносики клубеньковые
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Sitona aberrans
- Sitona ambiguus
- Sitona amurensis
- Sitona anchora
- Sitona aquilonius
- Sitona brucki
- Sitona californius
- Sitona callosus
- Sitona canus
- Sitona cinnamomeus
- Sitona concavirostris
- Sitona cylindricollis
- Sitona desertus
- Sitona discoideus
- Sitona gemellatus
- Sitona hispidulus
- Sitona humeralis
- Sitona inops
- Sitona japonicus
- Sitona languidus
- Sitona lateralis
- Sitona lepidus
- Sitona lineatus
- Sitona lineellus
- Sitona lividipes
- Sitona longulus
- Sitona lupinus
- Sitona macularius
- Sitona obscuratus
- Sitona onerosus
- Sitona ononidis
- Sitona ophthalmicus
- Sitona ovipennis
- Sitona puncticollis
- Sitona scissifrons
- Sitona striatellus
- Sitona sulcifrons
- Sitona suturalis
- Sitona tanneri
- Sitona tenuis
- Sitona ursus
- Sitona verecundus
- Sitona virgatus
- Sitona vittatus
- Sitona waterhousei































































































































































