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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Anthonomini » Anthonomus » subgenus Anthonomus (Anthonomus subgenus Anthonomus) » suturalis group (Anthonomus suturalis group) » Anthonomus convictus

Species Anthonomus convictus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Anthonomus convictus Gates - Anthonomus convictus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Curculioninae

Tribe Anthonomini

Genus Anthonomus

No Taxon (subgenus Anthonomus)

No Taxon (suturalis group)

Species convictus (Anthonomus convictus)

Explanation of Names

Anthonomus convictus Gates 1972

Size

Length: avg 2.6 mm

Range

TX, KS, MA, Ont. - Map (1)(2)(BG Data) (MA and ON records may be A. haematopus)

Life Cycle

beaten from hackberry (Celtis) where it likely feeds on the leaf galls.

Remarks

Type Locality: College Station, V-13-1971 D.B. Gates, Brazos, Texas

See Also

A. convictus most closely resembles A. haematopus. Both species have reddish-brown elytra with the head and prothorax piceous.

The Anthonomus suturalis Group

Print References

Burke, H.R. 1976. Bionomics of anthonomine weevils. Annual Review of Entomology 21: 282–303.

Gates, D.B., and H.R. Burke. 1972. Review of the gall-inhabiting weevils of the genus Anthonomus, with description and biology of a new species (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65(5): 1215-1224.

Internet References

Type Info - Smithsonian

Species Page - Wayne E. Clark, Auburn

Works Cited

1.	Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies... O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by v belov on 14 January, 2015 - 9:52pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 15 March, 2023 - 1:15pm

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