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''Perapion'' is a genus of pear-shaped 
weevils
Weevils are beetles belonging to the superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small, less than in length, and herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They belong to several families, ...
in the family of beetles
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 ...
known as 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 subfam ...
. There are about 12 described species in ''Perapion''.
Species
These 12 species belong to the genus ''Perapion'': * '' Perapion antiquum'' (Gyllenhal, 1833) i g * '' Perapion connexum'' (Schilsky, 1902) g * '' Perapion curtirostre'' (Germar, 1817) g b * '' Perapion ilvense'' (Wagner, 1905) g * '' Perapion jacobsoni'' (Wagner, 1910) g * '' Perapion lemoroi'' (C.Brisout de Barneville, 1880) g * '' Perapion neofallax'' (Warner, 1958) i g * '' Perapion pulchrum'' b * '' Perapion punctinasum'' (J.B.Smith, 1884) g b * '' Perapion subviolaceum'' (Desbrochers, 1908) g * '' Perapion violaceum'' (Kirby, 1808) i * '' Perapion wickhami'' (Kissinger, 1960) g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.netReferences
Further reading
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* Brentidae {{weevil-stub