Species Artipus floridanus - Little Leaf Notcher

Classification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

weevil on buttonwood - Artipus floridanus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)

Tribe Naupactini

Genus Artipus

Species floridanus (Little Leaf Notcher)

Range

FL, Bahamas(1)

Habitat

hammock, pineland, mangrove(1)

Life Cycle

The life cycle is 60 to 120 days; 3-4 overlapping generations per year

Remarks

a minor pest of Citrus and other plants(1)

See Also

Myllocerus undecimpustulatus(2)

Works Cited

1.	A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida

2.	Myllocerus undecimpustulatus undatus Marshall (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a recently discovered pest weevil... By C.W. O’Brien, M. Haseeb, M.C. Thomas

Contributed by Boris Büche on 15 May, 2007 - 3:39am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 10 November, 2011 - 12:04pm

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