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Pissodes
Pissodes is a genus of weevils described by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1817.
These insects live on conifers. They are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, their distribution mirroring that of plants in the Pinaceae, the pine family, which includes most of their host trees.
A few Pissodes species are considered to be pests, such as Pissodes strobi, P. nemorensis, and P. terminalis, because they do significant damage to trees.
As of 2007 there are 46 species in the genus.
Species of Pissodes include:
- Pissodes castaneus
- Pissodes cheni
- Pissodes gyllenhali
- Pissodes harcyniae
- Pissodes nemorensis
- Pissodes nitidus
- Pissodes notatus
- Pissodes piceae
- Pissodes pilatsquamosus
- Pissodes pini
- Pissodes piniphilus
- Pissodes scabricollis
- Pissodes strobi
- Pissodes terminalis
- Pissodes validirostris
- Pissodes webbi