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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Pea and Bean Weevils (Bruchinae) » Bruchini » Bruchus » Vetch Bruchid (Bruchus brachialis)

Species Bruchus brachialis - Vetch Bruchid

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Small Beetle - Bruchus brachialis - male Any ideas? - Bruchus brachialis Bruchinae - Bruchus brachialis vetch bruchids - Bruchus brachialis - female Vicia Bruchine - Bruchus brachialis Bruchinae - Bruchus brachialis Pea Weevil - Vetch Bruchid - Bruchus brachialis - female Pea Weevil - Vetch Bruchid - Bruchus brachialis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Bruchinae (Pea and Bean Weevils)
Tribe Bruchini
Genus Bruchus
Species brachialis (Vetch Bruchid)
Explanation of Names
Bruchus brachialis Fåhraeus 1839
Size
2.5–2.9 mm (smaller than the other two congeners in NA)(1)
Identification
pattern:
mottled with fine pale spots, the only conspicous a prescutellar on pronotum.

male frontlegs inflated (name!), antennae all yellow in male,
mostly dark on female, terminal segment frequently red again.
Range
adventive to NA - Map (1)(2)(3), native to w. Palaearctic
Food
hosts: Lathyrus sativus, Vicia (especially V. villosa) (1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: 1931 (NJ-MD)(1)
Works Cited
1.Handbook of the Bruchidae of the United States and Canada
Kingsolver J.M. 2004. USDA Tech. Bull. 1912 (2 vols.).
2.Coleoptera Poloniae
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by tom murray on 22 November, 2006 - 4:24pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 30 March, 2023 - 9:36am

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