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Species Donus zoilus - Clover Leaf Weevil

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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 Donus
Species zoilus (Clover Leaf Weevil)
Other Common Names
Sandy Clover Weevil
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hypera punctata (Fabricius 1775) [in much of the American literature] • ≡Hypera zoilus ≡Brachypera zoilus
Explanation of Names
Donus (Antidonus) zoilus (Scopoli 1763)
Named after the Greek philosopher Zoilus
Range
native to the Palaearcitc, adventive in our area and now occurs across NA(1)
Food
larval hosts include clover and alfalfa, adults feed on wider range of Fabaceae(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: QC 1853(1)
Works Cited
1.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
Majka C.G., Anderson R.S., McCorquodale D.B. 2007. Can. Entomol. 139: 397–442.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 29 March, 2007 - 10:21am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, Ron M., v belov, onegunah
Last updated 13 February, 2025 - 7:25pm

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