Pissodes
Genus of beetles
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Pissodes is a genus of weevils described by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1817.
| Pissodes | |
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| Pissodes notatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Tribe: | Pissodini |
| Genus: | Pissodes Germar, 1817 |
| Diversity | |
| at least 140 species | |
These insects live on conifers.[1] They are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, their distribution mirroring that of plants in the Pinaceae, the pine family, which includes most of their host trees.[2]
A few Pissodes species are considered to be pests, such as Pissodes strobi, P. nemorensis, and P. terminalis, because they do significant damage to trees.[2]
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There are at least 140 described species in Pissodes.[3][4][5][6][7]
