{{short description|Species of beetle}}
{{speciesbox | genus = Phloeosinus | species = punctatus | authority = LeConte, 1876 }} '''''Phloeosinus punctatus''''', the '''western cedar bark beetle''', is a species of crenulate bark beetle in the family Curculionidae.<ref name=bugref>{{cite web|title=''Phloeosinus punctatus'' Species Information|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/836249|website=BugGuide.net|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref><ref name=itis>{{cite web|title=''Phloeosinus punctatus'' Report|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114943|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref><ref name=eol>{{cite web|title=''Phloeosinus punctatus'' Overview|url=http://eol.org/pages/693819/overview|website=Encyclopedia of Life|access-date=2018-02-07}}</ref> It is found in North America.<ref name=itis />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book | editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = R.H. Jr. | editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = M. C. | editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = P. E. | editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. H. | date = 2002 | title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea | publisher = CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. }} * {{cite book | last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. | date = 2000 | title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico | publisher = CRC Press. }} * {{cite book | last1 = White | first1 = Richard E. | date = 1983 | title = Peterson Field Guides: Beetles | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company. }} * {{cite journal | last1 = Jansen | first1 = MA | last2 = Franz | first2 = NM | date = 2015 | title = Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 528 | pages = 1–133 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.528.6001 | pmid = 26692791 | pmc = 4668883 | doi-access = free }} {{refend}}
==External links== {{refbegin}} * {{cite web|title=NCBI Taxonomy Browser|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?name=Phloeosinus+punctatus|access-date=2018-02-07}} {{refend}} {{-}}{{Phloeosinus}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q48973627}}
Category:Scolytinae Category:Beetles described in 1876 Category:Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte
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