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Species Orchestes fagi - Beech Leaf-mining Weevil

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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