Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, Excluding

FRONTISPIECE. Some characteristic weevils from the Yukon: Upper left, Connatichela artemisiae Anderson, a brachypterous weevil found on river banks and dry south-facing slopes only in the Yukon and in Alaska; Upper right, Vitavitus thulius Kissinger, a rare brachypterous weevil of dry tundra and ste...

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Main Authors: Platypodinae Of The Yukon, Robert S. Anderson
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.496.9119
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/pdf/anderson2.pdf
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Summary:FRONTISPIECE. Some characteristic weevils from the Yukon: Upper left, Connatichela artemisiae Anderson, a brachypterous weevil found on river banks and dry south-facing slopes only in the Yukon and in Alaska; Upper right, Vitavitus thulius Kissinger, a rare brachypterous weevil of dry tundra and steppe, recorded only from the Yukon and adjacent areas; Lower left, Dorytomus hirtus LeConte, a Nearctic species associated especially with Populus in boreal and boreomontane forest; Lower right, Tychius tectus LeConte, a widely distributed Holarctic species found in the Yukon on dry south-facing slopes. Length of these species is 5 mm (species on left) and 3–3.5 mm (species on right). Weevils of the Yukon