Species
Sciopithes obscurus (Obscure root weevil)
Sciopithes obscurus. Photo: (c) Thomas Barbin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Sciopithes obscurus, the obscure root weevil, is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. It is found in North America.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Superfamily: Curculionoidea (Snout and bark beetles)
- Family: Curculionidae (True weevils)
- Subfamily: Entiminae (Broad-nosed weevils)
- Tribe: Otiorhynchini
- Genus: Sciopithes
- Species: Sciopithes obscurus (Obscure root weevil)
- Genus: Sciopithes
- Tribe: Otiorhynchini
- Subfamily: Entiminae (Broad-nosed weevils)
- Family: Curculionidae (True weevils)
- Superfamily: Curculionoidea (Snout and bark beetles)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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