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Species Listroderes difficilis - Vegetable Weevil

Weevil 03.17.2009 166 - Listroderes difficilis Snout Beetle - Listroderes difficilis Listroderes difficilis Germain - Listroderes difficilis Beetle - Listroderes difficilis Listroderes difficilis Hypera? - Listroderes difficilis Weevil - Listroderes difficilis Hylobius pales - Pales Weevil - Listroderes difficilis
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 Cyclominae
Tribe Listroderini
Genus Listroderes
Species difficilis (Vegetable Weevil)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
resurrected from synonymy with L. costirostris Schoenherr
Explanation of Names
Listroderes difficilis Germain 1895
Range
se US to CA (CA-TX-FL-NC-OK, NJ) - Map (1)(2)
native to S. America, now almost worldwide in warm temperate/subtropical climates
Food
polyphagous, may feed on a wide range of vegetables, cultivated flowers, and weeds (Mau & Kessing 1992)
Remarks
Introduced to the US from Argentina; earliest record: MS 1922
Print References
Morrone J.J. (1993) Cladistic biogeographic analyses of the weevil genus Listroderes Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Cladistics 9: 397–411.
Internet References
Works Cited
1. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)