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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Eudiagogini » Sesbania Clown Weevils (Eudiagogus)

Genus Eudiagogus - Sesbania Clown Weevils

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi - female Eudiagogus pulcher Eudiagogus pulcher Eudiagogus rosenschoeldi Sesbania Clown Weevil - Eudiagogus pulcher Sesbania Clown Weevils-Courting pair #2 - Eudiagogus maryae - male - female Jockey's Ridge beetle on Fabaceae shrub 2022 1 - Eudiagogus Jockey's Ridge beetle on Fabaceae shrub 2022 2 - Eudiagogus
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.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 30 March, 2007 - 11:44am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, Graham M, Ron M., v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 29 July, 2023 - 12:03pm

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