''Cylas formicarius'', the sweet potato weevil, is a species of sweet potato weevil in the
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
family
Brentidae
Brentidae is a cosmopolitan family of primarily xylophagous beetles also known as straight-snouted weevils. The concept of this family has been recently expanded with the inclusion of three groups formerly placed in the Curculionidae; the sub ...
. It is found in Africa, Australia, the
Caribbean, Europe, Northern Asia (excluding China), Central America, North America,
Oceania
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, South America, Southern Asia, the
Pacific Ocean
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, and temperate Asia.
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Brentidae
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Beetles described in 1798
Sweet potatoes
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