Species Trichobaris mucorea - Tobacco Weevil

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Trichobaris but not compactus - Trichobaris mucorea

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 Baridinae (Flower Weevils)

Tribe Baridini

Genus Trichobaris

Species mucorea (Tobacco Weevil)

Other Common Names

Tobacco Weevil (1), Tobacco Stalk Borer (2)

Explanation of Names

Trichobaris mucorea (LeConte 1858)

mucorea 'moldy'

Range

sw. US (s.CA-w.TX, s.UT) & Mex. - Map (3)(4)

Food

coyote tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata, Solanaceae) (1)

Remarks

Lee et al. (2006) examined the host-selection behaviours of two sympatric weevils, the Datura (Trichobaris compacta) and tobacco (T. mucorea) weevils in field and glasshouse experiments... Adult females of both species strongly preferred to feed on D. wrightii rather than on N. attenuata leaves, but T. mucorea preferred to oviposit on N. attenuata, while T. compacta oviposited only on D. wrightii. These oviposition behaviours increased offspring performance: T. compacta larvae only survived in D. wrightii stems and T. mucorea larvae survived better in N. attenuata than in D. wrightii stems. (1)

Print References

Lee G, Joo Y, Diezel C, Lee EJ, Baldwin IT, Kim S. (2006) Trichobaris weevils distinguish amongst toxic host plants by sensing volatiles that do not affect larval performance. Mol Ecol. 25(14): 3509–3519. (1)

Works Cited

1.	Trichobaris weevils distinguish amongst toxic host plants by sensing volatiles that do not affect larval performance. Lee et al. 2016. Mol Ecol. 25(14): 3509–3519.

2.	iNaturalist

3.	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.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 10 July, 2011 - 11:33pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 November, 2023 - 4:29pm

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