Acalles echinatus
| Acalles echinatus | |
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| Imago | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Acalles |
| Species: | A. echinatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Acalles echinatus (Germar, 1824) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Acalles echinatus is species of beetle from the family Curculionidae. It inhabits Europe and the Transcaucasia.[1][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]This species was first described in 1824 by Ernst Friedrich Germar under the name Cryptorhynchus echinatus.[2][1] The type locality was indicated as "Carniolia",[2] in the present-day Slovenia.
Acalles echinatus, together with nine other species, forms the echinatus group within the genus Acalles, characterized by a triangular shape edeagusa. Sibling species for A. echinatus are Acalles fallax and Acalles petryszaki.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Acalles (Acalles) echinatus (Germar, 1824)". Fauna Europaea. 2004. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 Germar, Ernst Friedrich. Insectorum species: novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae (in Latin). Halle: J.C. Hendelii et filii. p. 278. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.130964.
- 1 2 Lachowska, Dorota; Rożek, Maria; Holecovà, Milada (2009). "Chromosomal similarities and differences among three sibling species of the Acalles echinatus group (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae)". Zootaxa. 1985 (1): 63–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1985.1.7.