Acanthoscelides obtectus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chrysomeloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Cladus: Phytophaga Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Bruchinae
Tribus: Bruchini
Subtribe: Acanthoscelidina
Genus: Acanthoscelides
Species: Acanthoscelides obtectus

Name

Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say, 1831)

Synonymy

Bruchus obtectus Say, 1831: 1 (protonym)
?Bruchus leguminarius Gyllenhal in Schönherr, 1833: 69 [syn.: Riley, 1892: 292; Riley & Howard, 1892: 31]
Bruchus irresectus Fåhraeus in Schönherr, 1839: 18 [syn.: Riley, 1892: 292; Riley & Howard, 1892: 31]
Bruchus melanocephalus Fåhraeus in Schönherr, 1839: 87
Bruchus pallidipes Fåhraeus in Schönherr, 1839: 91 [syn.: Riley, 1892: 292; Riley & Howard, 1892: 31]
Bruchus tetricus Gyllenhal in Schönherr, 1839: 22 [syn.: Kingsolver, 1979: 341]
Bruchus subellipticus Wollaston, 1854: 420 [syn.: Riley, 1892: 292; Riley & Howard, 1892: 31]
Bruchus acanthocnemus Jekel, 1855: 15 (validation of Dejean, 1834: 231 [= 1836: 253], in synonymy with obtectus)
Bruchus incretus Walker, 1859: 261
Bruchus fabae Fitch, 1861: 63 [syn.: Riley, 1892: 292; Riley & Howard, 1892: 31]
Bruchus fabae Riley, 1871: 52 [junior homonym] [syn.: Riley, 1892: 292; Riley & Howard, 1892: 31]
?Bruchus gilvipes Motschulsky, 1874: 238 [syn.: Bridwell, 1938: 5]
Bruchus varicornis Motschulsky, 1874: 239 [syn.: Kingsolver, 1979: 341]

References

Primary references

Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1834. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Deuxième édition. [Livraison 3]. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils. pp. 177–256. BHL. Reference page.
Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1836. Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Troisième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée. [Livraisons 1–4]. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils. pp. 1–384. BHL. Google Books. Reference page.
Bridwell, J.C. 1938. [Synonymies of Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say) and Callosobruchus maculatus (F.)] Pp. 4–5. In: Larson, A.O. & Fisher, C.K. The Bean Weevil and the Southern Cowpea Weevil in California. Technical Bulletin (United States. Dept. Of Agriculture) No. 593. 71 pp. DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.165798 .
Fitch, A. 1861. The bean-weevil. Transactions of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry 1860: 62–64. Google Books .
Jekel, H. 1855. Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. Coleoptera. Curculionides.—Part 1. London: John van Voorst, Paternorster Row. 1–153. BHL. Reference page.
Kingsolver, J.M. 1979. New synonymy and new combinations in North American Bruchidae (Coleoptera). The Coleopterists Bulletin 33(3): 341–342. BHL.
Motschulsky, V. de 1874. Enumération des nouvelles espèces de coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. (13–Article). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 46 [1873] (4): 203–252. BHL.
Riley, C.V. 1871. Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri. Jefferson City: Horace Wilcox, 175 pp. BHL.
Riley, C.V. 1892. An additional note on the bean weevil. The Canadian Entomologist 24: 291–292. BHL.
Riley, C.V. & Howard, L.O. 1892. On the nomenclature and on the oviposition of the bean weevil. Insect Life 5: 27–33. BHL.
Say, T. 1831. Descriptions of North American Curculionides and an arrangement of some of our known species agreeably to the method of Schoenherr. 30 pp. New Harmony, Indiana. BHL. [Reprinted in Leconte, J.L. (ed.) 1891: The complete writings of Thomas Say on the entomology of North America, 1: 259–299, with the original pagination indicated in the text in square brackets. BHL.] Reference page.
Schönherr, C.J. 1833. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Roret, Paris, 1 (1), i–xv + 1–381 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Schönherr, C.J. 1839. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Roret, Paris, 5 (1), pp. 1–456. BHL. Reference page.
Walker, F. 1859. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. Annals and magazine of natural history (3) 3(16): 258–265. BHL Reference page.
Wollaston, T.V. 1854. Insecta Maderensia; being an account of the insects of the islands of the Madeiran group. xliii + 634 pp., 13 pls. London, J. Van Voorst. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Anton, K.-W. 2010. Subfamily Bruchinae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 339–353. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books. Reference page.
Johnson, C.D. 1970. Biosystematics of the Arizona, California, and Oregon species of the seed beetle genus Acanthoscelides Schilsky (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). University of California, Publications in Entomology 59: 1–116. Internet Archive .
Johnson, C.D. 1990. Systematics of the seed beetle genus Acanthoscelides (Bruchidae) of Northern South America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 116(2): 297–618. JSTOR .
Kingsolver, J.M. 1968. A review of the obtectus group in Acanthoscelides Schlisky, with designations of lectotypes (Coleoptera: Bruchidae: Bruchinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 70(1): 4–9. BHL.
Bridwell, J.C. 1942. Two new American bean bruchids (Coleoptera). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 44 (1940): 249–258. PDF.
Schmitt, M., Neumann, A. & Lin, S-W.. Anatomy of male and female genitalia of Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say, 1831) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in interaction. Pp 75–85 in Chaboo, C.S. & Schmitt, M. (eds.) 2023. Research on Chrysomelidae 9. ZooKeys 1177ː 1–258. Reference page. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1177.101621 Reference page.
Wightman, J.A.; Southgate, B.J. 1982: Egg morphology, host, and probable regions of origin of the bruchids (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) that infest stored pulses-an identification aid. New Zealand journal of experimental agriculture, 10: 95–99. Google books

Vernacular names

français: Bruche du haricot
magyar: Babzsizsik
polski: Strąkowiec fasolowy
Türkçe: Fasulye böceği