Sciaphilus
Schönherr, 1823
Species Guides
1- Sciaphilus asperatus(Scaly strawberry weevil)
Sciaphilus is a of weevils in the Curculionidae, Entiminae, tribe Sciaphilini. The genus contains at least two described : Sciaphilus asperatus and S. costulatus. Species are distributed across Europe, Northern America, and parts of Asia. The best-studied species, S. asperatus, is wingless, parthenogenetic, and .
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Distribution
Europe, Northern America, Central Asia (Kazakhstan), western Siberia (Tomsk region), Turkey
Similar Taxa
- Other Entiminae generaSciaphilus larvae and pupae can be distinguished using identification keys provided in Gosik et al. (2019), which supplement existing keys for selected Palaearctic Entiminae
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- Wikipedia
- GBIF taxonomy match
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life
- Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): First Record for Turkey and Data on its General Distribution
- Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology
- Figure 4 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922
- Figures 12-19 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922
- Figures 5-9 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922
- Figures 23-26 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922
- Figures 20-22 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922
- Figure 10- 11 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922
- Figures 1-3 from: Gosik R, Sprick P, Tiahunova T (2019) Descriptions of the mature larva and pupa of the Scaly strawberry weevil, Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) and observations of its biology. ZooKeys 873: 65-83. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.873.35922