Fruitworm Beetles (lat. Byturidae)

Fruitworm Beetles
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Byturidae, also known as Fruitworms, is a family of beetles, in the suborder Polyphaga. The larvae develop in fruits. Byturus unicolor affects species of Rubus and Geum, the larvae of Raspberry beetle raspberry plants.

species

Byturus ochraceus
Byturus ochraceus

Classification

Subfamilies and genera are as below:

Subfamily Byturinae Genus Haematoides Haematoides davidis Fairmaire, 1878 (= Byturodes grahami) Genus Byturus Byturus affinis Reitter, 1874 Byturus ochraceus (Scriba, 1791) Byturus tomentosus (De Geer, 1774) Byturus unicolor Say, 1823 Byturus wittmeri Sen Gupta Genus Xerasia Xerasia grisescens (Jayne, 1882) Xerasia meschniggi (Reitter, 1905) Xerasia punica Goodrich & Springer, 1988 Xerasia variegata Lewis, 1895 Subfamily Platydascillinae Genus Bispinatus Bispinatus capillatus Springer & Goodrich, 1995 Bispinatus vietnamensis Springer & Goodrich, 1994 Genus Dascillocyphon Dascillocyphon minor Everts, 1909 Genus Platydascillus Platydascillus sumatranus Everts, 1909 Genus Remigera Remigera securiformis Springer & Goodrich, 1994 Remigera spatulata Springer & Goodrich, 1994

Ancestry graph

Arthropods Insects Beetles Fruitworm Beetles Byturus ochraceus

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