Acoptus is a genus of true weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. There is one described species in Acoptus, A. suturalis, found in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.[1][2][3] It can commonly be found near beaver dams.[4]

Acoptus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Genus: Acoptus
Species:
A. suturalis
Binomial name
Acoptus suturalis
LeConte, 1876

References

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  1. ^ "Acoptus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. ^ "Acoptus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  3. ^ "Genus Acoptus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  4. ^ Mourant, Alexandre; Lecomte, Nicolas; Moreau, Gaétan (2020-12-07). "Size matters: When resource accessibility by ecosystem engineering elicits wood-boring beetle demographic responses". Ecology and Evolution. 11 (2). Wiley: 784–795. doi:10.1002/ece3.7079. ISSN 2045-7758. PMC 7820143. PMID 33520166. S2CID 230606429.

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