Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus
Species of beetle
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Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae.[1][2] It is native to Europe and introduced in North America.[1]
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| Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Otiorhynchus |
| Species: | O. carinatopunctatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Otiorhynchus carinatopunctatus (Retzius, 1783) | |
Nomenclature
This species was wrongly identified with Curculio scaber Linnaeus, 1758 from 1898 on. When reinspected, types proved not identical with this species at all, but to the species then known as Trachyphloeus bifoveolatus.[2]
