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Lachnopus
Sign in to saveLachnopus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the family Curculionidae distributed in the Caribbean Region.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 274
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Collections
- INHS, ABS, ASU
- Recorded in
- Jamaica, United States, Cuba
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Lachnopus is a genus of broad-nosed weevils in the family Curculionidae distributed in the Caribbean Region.
== Taxonomy == The genus Lachnopus was named for the first time by Carl Johan Schönherr in 1840 (p. 380). The names Menoetius Dejean, 1821-94 and Ptilopus Schönherr, 1823: c. 1140 are considered junior synonyms of Lachnopus.
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