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Species Ceutorhynchus erysimi

Another tiny weevil - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Another Weevil - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Cuculionidae -? - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Cuculionidae -? - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Colorful weevil - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Curculionidae, dorsal - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Minute Seed Weevil - Ceutorhynchus erysimi Minute Seed Weevil - Ceutorhynchus erysimi
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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)
Tribe Ceutorhynchini
Genus Ceutorhynchus
Species erysimi (Ceutorhynchus erysimi)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ceutorhynchus erysimi (Fabricius)
Orig. Comb: Curculio erysimi J.C. Fabricius, 1787
Size
2–2.6 mm(1)
Range
native to Europe, adventive and widespread in NA, though largely absent from the southernmost states - Map (2)(3)
Food
host: Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris, Brassicaceae), non-native, found throughout NA
Remarks
first recorded in North America in Ohio in 1922 (2)
See Also
Ceutorhynchus americanus Buchanan
- widely dist.