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Genus Elaeidobius

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 Derelomini
Genus Elaeidobius
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Elaeidobius Kuschel 1952
Numbers
a single (adventive) species in our area, 8 spp. total(1)
Range
native to W. & C. Africa, introduced elsewhere around the tropics, in the New World into FL(1)
Food
host: African oil palm Elaeis guineensis (Arecaceae)(1)
Life Cycle
larvae develop in male flowers of the host(1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the palm-pollinating weevil genus Elaeidobius Kuschel, 1952 (Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Derelomini)...
Haran J.M., Beaudoin-Ollivier L., Benoit L., Kuschel G. 2020. Eur. J. Taxon. 648(684): 1‒32.
Contributed by v belov on 19 January, 2015 - 6:29pm
Last updated 3 January, 2024 - 8:13pm

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