Species Magdalis barbita - Black Elm Bark Weevil

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Magdalis barbita (Say) - Magdalis barbita

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 Mesoptiliinae

Tribe Magdalidini (Wedge-shaped Bark Weevils)

Genus Magdalis

Species barbita (Black Elm Bark Weevil)

Other Common Names

BEBW(1)

Explanation of Names

Magdalis barbita (Say 1831)

Size

4-6 mm(1)

Range

e. NA (NB-MB to GA-TX)(2)(1)

Season

May-Jul in NB(2), Mar-May in c. TX(3)

Food

hosts: elms (American elm preferred, also cedar elm)(1)(3)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid in the bark in May and June. The larvae feed in the inner bark and sapwood, constructing galleries up to 1.5" long. Pupation occurs in oval cells just beneath the bark.(4)

One generation per year(4)

Works Cited

1.	Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs Solomon, J.D. 1995. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook. 735 pp.

2.	New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Anthribidae, Brentidae, Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, and Curculionidae... Webster R.P., Anderson R.S., Sweeney J.D., Demerchant I. 2012. Zookeys 179: 349-406.

3.	Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Quinn, M.A. 2000. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.

4.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 31 January, 2011 - 10:25pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 30 July, 2023 - 12:30pm

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