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Species Sitona lineatus - Pea Leaf Weevil

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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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Sitonini
Genus Sitona
Species lineatus (Pea Leaf Weevil)
Explanation of Names
Sitona lineatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
3.2-4.5 mm(1)
Range
native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic(2), adventive in NA (AB-BC-CA, VA-FL-TX)(1)(3)
Habitat
Moderately hygrophilous(4)
Food
on peas, beans, sweet peas, alfalfa, clover, bird’s foot trefoil, vetch, chickpea (Cicer arietinum), thrashed oats (Bright 1994); serious pest of edible legumes
Life Cycle
univoltine(4)
Internet References
Species pages: Afonin et al. (2008)(4) | anon.(5) | Bartelt (2011) (6)
Works Cited
1.Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 25. Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae.
Donald E. Bright, Patrice Bouchard. 2008. 2008. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2.Coleoptera Poloniae
3.Old traps for new weevils: new records [...] from Jefferson Co., Florida
Bloem S., Mizell R.F., O'Brien C.W. 2002. Fla Entomol. 85: 632-644.
4.Afonin A.N. et al., eds. (2008) Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries
5.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
6.Invasive insect database at texasinvasives.org
Contributed by Boris Büche on 5 May, 2008 - 4:24am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 October, 2017 - 9:06pm

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