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Species Naupactus cervinus - Fuller Rose Beetle

Representative Images

Little brown bug - Naupactus cervinus Naupactus cervinus? - Naupactus cervinus Broad Nosed from Camp Creek - Naupactus cervinus Broad-nosed weevil? - Naupactus cervinus Broad-nosed weevil? - Naupactus cervinus Naupactus cervinus? - Naupactus cervinus Pelham Road Coleoptera Weevil on Vitis vulpina 2020 4 - Naupactus cervinus Naupactus? - Naupactus cervinus

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 Naupactini
Genus Naupactus (White-fringed Weevils)
Species cervinus (Fuller Rose Beetle)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

‒Pantomorus cervinus • Asynonychus godmanni Crotch 1867, Aramigus fulleri Horn 1876

Explanation of Names

Naupactus cervinus Boheman 1840
cervinus 'deer-like' (prob. refers to the color)
Andrew Samuel Fuller (1828‒1896) gave Horn the type specimen

Size

6.5‒8.0 mm(1)

Range

native to S.America, adventive elsewhere, now cosmopolitan; in our area, transcontinental (OR‒MT‒ON‒MA to CA‒TX‒FL)(1)

Food

highly polyphagous, may damage many crops/ornamentals; adults feed on leaves (leaf-notching), buds, and flowers; larvae, on roots. Considered a mainly greenhouse pest.(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NY 1874(1)

Internet References

Fact sheet (Gyeltshen & Hodges 2009)(2)

Works Cited

1.Adventive weevils recorded from North America: A review and illustrated manual for their identification...
Hoebeke E.R., LaBonte J.R., Loeffler K.E. 2024. Coleopterists Soc. Special Publication 5: 1–604, 219 plates.
2.University of Florida: Featured Creatures
Contributed by Boris Büche on 15 May, 2007 - 4:02am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 February, 2025 - 5:14pm

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