Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Notiodes

small punctate weevil - Notiodes ovalis Notiodes depressus Burke - Notiodes depressus Notiodes aeratus (LeConte) - Notiodes aeratus Notiodes limatulus Gyllenhal - Notiodes limatulus Bagous? - Notiodes ovalis Notiodes ovalis Notiodes punctatus (LeConte) - Notiodes punctatus Notiodes ovalis
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 Brachyceridae
Subfamily Erirhininae (Marsh Weevils)
Subtribe Stenopelmina
Genus Notiodes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Endalus Laporte 1840
Explanation of Names
Notiodes Schönherr 1838
Numbers
14 spp. in our area(1)
Range
New World(1); much of the US and adjacent Canada (QC-AB), poorly represented in the northeast (only 2 spp. north of VA)(2)
Habitat
wetlands(3)
Food
associated with Marsilea (Marsileaceae) and various Cyperaceae(1)
Remarks
spp. that feed on Cyperaceae come to lights; those that feed on Marsilea do not(1)
Works Cited
1.New Notiodes semiaquatic weevil (Curculionidae) from sporocarps of Marsilea mollis (Marsileaceae) in southern Arizona, USA
C.W. O’Brien. 2009. Western North American Naturalist 69(4): 421–425.
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.
3.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.