{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bruchidius endotubercularis.jpg | image_caption = ''Bruchidius endotubercularis'' | taxon = Bruchidius | display_parents = 2 | authority = Schilsky, 1905 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = about 300 }}

'''''Bruchidius''''' is a genus of beetles in the bean weevil subfamily (Bruchinae) of the leaf beetle family, Chrysomelidae. Most are native to the Old World.<ref name=sto>Stojanova, A. M., et al. (2011). [http://web.uni-plovdiv.bg/mollov/EB/2011/eb.11205.pdf A new seed beetle species to the Bulgarian fauna: ''Bruchidius siliquastri'', Delobel (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae).] ''Ecologia Balkanica'' 3(1) 117-19.</ref>

The larvae of these beetles often feed on plants of the legume family, Fabaceae. The species ''Bruchidius siliquastri'', for example, is a seed beetle named for its host, the Judas tree (''Cercis siliquastrum'').<ref name=ker>Kergoat, G. J., et al. (2007). [http://zoologie.umh.ac.be/asef/pdf/2007_43_03/full/Kergoat_et_al_ASEF_43_3_265_271_full.pdf Phylogenetic relationships of a new species of seed-beetle infesting ''Cercis siliquastrum'' L. in China and in Europe (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae: Bruchini).] ''Ann Soc Entomol Fr'' 43(3) 265-71.</ref> It lives on other ''Cercis'' species, as well.<ref name=sto/> One of several groups within the genus, the ''B. centromaculatus'' group, are mostly limited to acacias.<ref name=anton>Anton, K. and A. Delobel. (2003). [http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Bruchidius%20centromaculatus.pdf African species of the ''Bruchidius centromaculatus'' group with “eyed” female pygidium (Coleoptera: Bruchidae: Bruchinae).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203152/http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Bruchidius%20centromaculatus.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} ''Genus'' 14(2) 159-90.</ref> The genus can also be found on plants of the carrot and parsley family, Apiaceae, and the aster family, Asteraceae.<ref name=sto/>

There are around 300 species in this genus.<ref name=sto/>

Species include:<ref name=ker/><ref name=anton/> *''Bruchidius antennatus'' <small>(Wollastone, 1864)</small> *''Bruchidius biguttatus'' <small>(Olivier, 1795)</small> *''Bruchidius brincki'' <small>Decelle, 1975</small> *''Bruchidius chloroticus'' <small>(Dalman, 1833)</small> *''Bruchidius cisti'' <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> *''Bruchidius endotubercularis'' *''Bruchidius faroensis''<ref name=del>Delobel, A. (2012). [http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Delobel_Two%20new%20species%20of%20seed%20beetles.pdf Two new seed beetles from Cameroon (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae).] ''Genus'' 23(3) 367-73.</ref> *''Bruchidius holosericeus'' <small>(Schönherr, 1832)</small> *''Bruchidius lichenicola'' <small>(Wollaston, 1854)</small> *''Bruchidius lineatopygus'' *''Bruchidius lutescens'' <small>(Blanchard, 1844)</small> *''Bruchidius meridionalis'' <small>Anton & Delobel, 2003</small> *''Bruchidius nodieri'' *''Bruchidius obscurevittatus''<ref name=del/> *''Bruchidius pauper'' <small>(Boheman, 1829)</small> *''Bruchidius raddianae'' <small>Anton & Delobel, 2003</small> *''Bruchidius siliquastri'' <small>Delobel, 2007</small> *''Bruchidius simulans'' *''Bruchidius unicolor'' <small>(Olivier, 1795)</small> *''Bruchidius villosus'' <small>(Fabricius, 1792)</small> &ndash; Scotch broom bruchid

==Gallery== <gallery widths="180" heights="180"> File:Bruchidius buettikeri Decelle, 1979.png|''Bruchidius buettikeri'' File:Bruchidius nalandus.png|''Bruchidius nalandus'' File:Bruchidius nudus (Allard, 1868) (22748814836).png|''Bruchidius nudus'' File:Bruchidius villosus (Fabricius 1792) (5142992820).png|''Bruchidius villosus'' </gallery>

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Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Bruchinae Category:Bruchidius Category:Taxa named by Friedrich Julius Schilsky