Poole, Karen E.
Polyteles
Sign in to savePolyteles is a South American genus of broad-nosed weevils in the subfamily Entiminae, tribe Entimini. There are seven described species distributed in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
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It is catalogued under topics including Beetles of South America, Entiminae and Insects described in 1829.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Collections
- FMNH
- Recorded in
- Perú, Paraguay, MéXico
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- Polyteles
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Polyteles is a South American genus of broad-nosed weevils in the subfamily Entiminae, tribe Entimini. There are seven described species distributed in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
A key to identify the genus among the Entimini was published by Vanin and Gaiger in 2005.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyteles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.