Peritaxia hispida

Peritaxia hispida is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the beetle family Curculionidae.^[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.^[1]

Peritaxia hispida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Genus:	Peritaxia
Species:	P. hispida
Binomial name
Peritaxia hispida Horn, 1876

The species was first described in 1876 by George H. Horn in Leconte's The Rhynchoptera of America, North of Mexico.^[5]