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Mimosestes
Sign in to saveMimosestes is a genus of pea and bean weevils in the beetle family Chrysomelidae. There are about 13 described species in Mimosestes.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyChrysomelidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 202
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Collections
- DMNS, UNM, NMSU, USNM, TAMU
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Mimosestes is a genus of pea and bean weevils in the beetle family Chrysomelidae. There are about 13 described species in Mimosestes.
==Species== At least these 12 species belong to the genus Mimosestes: Mimosestes acaciestes Kingsolver & Johnson, 1978 Mimosestes amicus (Horn, 1873) Mimosestes anomalus Johnson Mimosestes chrysocosmus Kingsolver, 1985 Mimosestes enterolobii Johnson Mimosestes insularis Kingsolver & Johnson, 1978 Mimosestes janzeni Johnson Mimosestes mimosae (Fabricius, 1781) Mimosestes nubigens (Motschulsky, 1874) Mimosestes playazul Johnson Mimosestes protractus (Horn, 1873) Mimosestes ulkei (Horn, 1873) (retama weevil)
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