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Species Hypera rumicis

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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 Hyperinae
Genus Hypera
Species rumicis (Hypera rumicis)
Explanation of Names
Hypera (Eririnomorphus) rumicis (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
4-6 mm(1)
Range
adventive across n. NA (QC-AB to *MD-KS-OR) - Map (2)(3)(4)(*BG data)(5), native to, and widespread in the Palaearctic
Food
hosts: Polygonum, Rumex, other Polygonaceae(2)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: 1879(2)
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