Andean potato weevil facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Premnotrypes
Premnotrypes vorax [fr]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Curculionidae
Tribe:	Premnotrypini
Genus:	Premnotrypes Pierce 1914

Premnotrypes (Andean potato weevil) is a genus of weevils (which are beetles). It was described in 1914 by American entomologist W. Dwight Pierce (1881-1967). Several species in the genus are pests, because the larvae feed on potato tubers and the adults on the leaves (one species even has the specific epithet solanivorax, 'potato devourer'). It is native to Latin America, in particular Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, but has been recorded as a possible invader on other continents.

Species

Premnotrypes includes the following species:

• Premnotrypes clivosus (Kuschel [de] 1956)
• Premnotrypes fractirostris (Marshall 1936)
• Premnotrypes latithorax [fr] (Pierce 1914)
• Premnotrypes piercei (Alcalá 1979)
• Premnotrypes pusillus (Kuschel 1956)
• Premnotrypes sanfordi (Pierce 1918)
• Premnotrypes solani (Pierce 1914) (type species)
• Premnotrypes solaniperda (Kuschel 1956)
• Premnotrypes solanivorax (Heller 1935)
• Premnotrypes suturicallus [fr] (Kuschel 1956)
• Premnotrypes vorax [fr] (Hustache 1933)
• Premnotrypes zischkai (Kuschel 1956)