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Compsus
Sign in to saveCompsus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the family Curculionidae, distributed across the Americas, primarily in northern South America.
Species
Golden-headed Weevil
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyCurculionidae
Observations1,043
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 32
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, USNM, MPEG, TAMU, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLECTION OF ARTHOPODS (UCFC), OSUC
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Mexico, Brasil, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Colombia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Eustylini
- Image
- Compsus - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBAINV0274 029 01 02 0069.tif
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Compsus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the family Curculionidae, distributed across the Americas, primarily in northern South America.
== Taxonomy == The genus Compsus was first named by Carl Johan Schönherr in 1823: col. 1140. It belongs to the subfamily Entiminae, tribe Eustylini and to the so-called "Compsus genus complex".
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