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Cnestus
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Species
Camphor Shot Borer
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyCurculionidae
Observations103
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 13
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Collections
- NMV, ABS, USNM
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Etymology
- Taxonomy
- References
Cnestus is a genus of ambrosia beetles.
One prominent species is Cnestus mutilatus, the camphor shot borer. It is an invasive species that originated in Asia, and has spread over much of the Eastern United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cnestus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.