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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Cycad Weevils (Belidae) » Rhopalotria » Rhopalotria slossoni

Species Rhopalotria slossoni

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Belidae Rhopalotria slossoni - Rhopalotria slossoni - male Rhopalotria slossoni Rhopalotria slossoni Florida little weevil - Rhopalotria slossoni - female Florida little weevil - Rhopalotria slossoni - female Rhopalotria sp. adult weevil - Rhopalotria slossoni
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 Belidae (Cycad Weevils)
Genus Rhopalotria
Species slossoni (Rhopalotria slossoni)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Rhopalotria slossoni (Schaeffer)
Orig. Comb: Allocorynus slossoni Schaeffer 1905
Explanation of Names
patronym for entomologist Annie Trumbull Slosson, who collected the type specimen.
Range
FL endemic (BRE, DAD) (1)
Food
on Zamia integrifolia (coontie)(2)
Life Cycle
The weevil pollinates the cycad, feeds on cycad pollen, and lays eggs on male cones; has a mutualistic relationship with the cycad Zamia pumila (Stevenson et al. 1998)
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.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

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