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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Flea Weevils (Rhamphini) » Rhamphina » Orchestes » Beech Leaf-mining Weevil (Orchestes fagi)

Species Orchestes fagi - Beech Leaf-mining Weevil

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Curculioninae
Tribe Rhamphini (Flea Weevils)
Subtribe Rhamphina
Genus Orchestes
Species fagi (Beech Leaf-mining Weevil)
Other Common Names
Beech Flea Weevil(1)
Explanation of Names
Orchestes fagi (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
2.2–2.8 mm(1)
Range
native to, and widespread across Europe, adventive in NA (NS, established)(1)(2)
Food
beech leaves; overwintered adults prefer to feed on newly flushed beech foliage but, in Europe, will feed on raspberry (Rubus) and hawthorn (Crataegus; Rosaceae) in early spring, before budburst in beech(1)
Life Cycle
One generation per year; adults emerge in spring and feed on newly expanding beech leaves, peppering
them with small holes, and occasionally damage the mid-rib causing the leaves to wilt(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NS 2011(1)
a member of a small subgenus Salius Schrank 1798
Internet References
Species page(3)
mines: Ellis (2013)(4) | British leafminers(5) | Pitkin et al.(6) |
Works Cited
1.First record of Orchestes fagi (L.) in North America, with a checklist of the North Amercian Rhamphini
Sweeney, J., R.S. Anderson, and R.P. Webster. 2012. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 66: 297-304.
2.Coleoptera Poloniae
3.WCG – Website of the Watford Coleoptera Group
4.Ellis W.N. (2007-) Leafminers of Europe
5.British leafminers
6.Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects
Contributed by v belov on 11 November, 2014 - 10:58am
Last updated 14 November, 2014 - 1:43pm

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