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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Polydrusini » Polydrusus » Polydrusus cervinus

Species Polydrusus cervinus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Grey weevil - Polydrusus cervinus Weevil Beetle - Polydrusus cervinus weevil - Polydrusus cervinus Polydrusus sericeus ? - Polydrusus cervinus Polydrusus cervinus? - Polydrusus cervinus 8034287 weevil - Polydrusus cervinus Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil - Polydrusus cervinus Weevil - Polydrusus 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 Polydrusini
Genus Polydrusus
Species cervinus (Polydrusus cervinus)
Explanation of Names
Polydrusus cervinus (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
3.9‒5.7 mm(1)
Identification
Body scales coppery to green (often fade to grey with age). Unlike the other two introduced spp., has numerous bare black spots on elytra, and dark legs.
Range
native to w.Eurasia (Europe to Kazakstan) • in our area, NF‒ON‒MI‒NJ(2)(3)
Food
Leaves of deciduous trees
Remarks
member of the subg. Eurodrusus Korotyaev & Meleshko 1997 that includes 34 spp. (all Palaearctic)
Works Cited
1.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
2.New records of Curculionoidea from Newfoundland and Labrador, with the first records of Orthochaetes setiger (Beck)...
Langor D.W., Anderson R.S., Bouchard P., Langor S.D. 2022. Zookeys 1136: 125–162.
3.The Polydrusus weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) of the United States of America and Canada: identification...
Lisak SC, Shanovich HN, Lindsey ARI, Aukema BH. 2024. The Canadian Entomologist. 156: e10.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 10 March, 2008 - 11:22am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 May, 2024 - 8:02pm

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