-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phaga)ylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Beetles (Order Coleoptera​​)

-​Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles (Suborder Polyphaga)

-​Cucujiform Beetles (Infraorder Cucujiformia)

-Leaf Beetles and Allies (Superfamily Chrysomeloidea)

-Leaf Beetles Family (Chrysomelidae)

-Pea and Bean Weevils (Subfamily Bruchinae)

-Tribe Bruchini

-Subtribe Acanthoscelidina

-Genus Acanthoscelides

Pea and bean weevils are beetles that eat the leaf margins and shoot tips of garden peas and broad bean, causing characteristic notch-like damage. Pea and been weevil belongs to the subfamily Entiminae, also known as the broad nosed weevils due to the short stout rostrum.