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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Eudiagogini » Sesbania Clown Weevils (Eudiagogus) » Eudiagogus pulcher

Species Eudiagogus pulcher

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Eudiagogus pulcher Fahraeus - Eudiagogus pulcher

Sesbania Clown Weevil - Eudiagogus pulcher

Unknown Mating Pair - Eudiagogus pulcher - male - female

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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)

Tribe Eudiagogini

Genus Eudiagogus (Sesbania Clown Weevils)

Species pulcher (Eudiagogus pulcher)

Other Common Names

Beautiful Clown Weevil

Explanation of Names

Eudiagogus pulcher Fåhraeus 1840

pulcher = 'beautiful'

Size

5-8 mm(1)

Identification

Pronotum with transversal pale band. Outer elytral band linear, branched to side in about middle:

Range

sw, se US (se CA-sw AZ, s.OK-AR-TX-w.FL) to Costa Rica - Map (2)(1)(3), mostly across e. & s. TX

Habitat

wetland margins(4)

Life Cycle

Adults feed externally on foliage, and larvae feed on nitrogen-fixing root nodules of several spp. of Sesbania (Fabaceae)(5); adults overwinter in numbers under loose bark of standing trees(5)

Works Cited

1.	Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae). Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.

2.	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.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

5.	Observations on the biology and ecology of two species of Eudiagogus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Kovarik P.W., Burke H.R. 1989. The Southwestern Naturalist 34(2): 196-212.

Contributed by Boris Büche on 15 May, 2007 - 5:12am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 27 February, 2024 - 1:24pm

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