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Genus Eudiagogus - Sesbania Clown Weevils

Clown Weevil - Eudiagogus maryae Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi Fahraeus - Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi? - Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi swamp beetle - Eudiagogus pulcher Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi Beetle - Eudiagogus pulcher small weevil - Eudiagogus maryae A beetle for ID. - Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi
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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Eudiagogini
Genus Eudiagogus (Sesbania Clown Weevils)
Explanation of Names
Eudiagogus Schönherr 1840
Numbers
3 spp. in our area
Identification
key to spp. in Warner (1979)(1)
Food
host: mostly Sesbania (Fabaceae); adults feed on foliage, larvae on root nodules(2)
Life Cycle
see Kovarik & Burke 1989)(3)
Works Cited
1.The genus Eudiagogus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Leptopiinae), with two new species on the weed Sesbania (Leguminosae)
Warner R.E. 1979. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. 81: 304-320.
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
3.Observations on the biology and ecology of two species of Eudiagogus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
Kovarik P.W., Burke H.R. 1989. The Southwestern Naturalist 34(2): 196-212.