Species Notolomus bicolor

palm flower weevil - Notolomus bicolor - male

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 Curculioninae

Tribe Derelomini

Genus Notolomus

Species bicolor (Notolomus bicolor)

Explanation of Names

Notolomus bicolor LeConte 1876

Range

SC-FL - Map (1)(GBIF)

Food

host: Sabal palmetto(1); common on flowers of palmetto and Sabal palm(2)

Works Cited

1.	Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae). Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.

2.	A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Curculionidae: Erirhininae O'Brien C.W., Anderson D.M. 1996. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-143f. 40 pp.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 21 April, 2008 - 8:04pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 September, 2022 - 7:11am

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