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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Polydrusini » Polydrusus » Pale Green Weevil (Polydrusus impressifrons)

Species Polydrusus impressifrons - Pale Green Weevil

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Pale Green Weevil - Polydrusus impressifrons Leaf Weevil - Polydrusus impressifrons Leaf Weevil - Polydrusus impressifrons Beetle - Polydrusus impressifrons Beetle - Polydrusus impressifrons Polydrusus formosus? - Polydrusus impressifrons Pale Green Weevil - Polydrusus impressifrons Pale Green Weevil - Polydrusus impressifrons
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Polydrusini
Genus Polydrusus
Species impressifrons (Pale Green Weevil)
Other Common Names
Leaf Weevil(1)
Explanation of Names
Polydrusus (Eustolus) impressifrons Gyllenhal 1834
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (introduced ca. 1913), established in the northeast west to MB(2), as well as in OR
Food
Adults were found mating on small plum trees and feeding on green plums and leaves.(3)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NY 1906(1)
Internet References
Fact sheets: Rosetta (2012)(1)
Works Cited
1.Pacific Northwest Nursery IPM Website
2.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.
3.Rhynchophora or weevils of North Eastern America
Blatchley and Leng. 1916. Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. 682 pp.
Contributed by Cotinis on 18 June, 2007 - 4:45am
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess, T. Hedlund
Last updated 13 December, 2019 - 1:32pm

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