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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Hyperinae » Hypera » Clover Head Weevil (Hypera meles)

Species Hypera meles - Clover Head Weevil

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 meles (Clover Head Weevil)
Explanation of Names
Hypera (Dapalinus) meles (Fabricius 1792)
Range
native to the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (e. & c. US + adjacent Canada)(1)(2)
Food
hosts include Trifolium, Medicago, Lotus, and other Fabaceae(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NY 1907(2)
Works Cited
1.Coleoptera Poloniae
2.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.
Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2006 - 6:01pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 8 November, 2012 - 12:07pm

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