Species Anthonomus grandis - Boll Weevil

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Weevil on wild cotton - Anthonomus grandis - female

Anthonomus grandis Boheman - Anthonomus grandis

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 Anthonomini

Genus Anthonomus

No Taxon (subgenus Anthonomus)

Species grandis (Boll Weevil)

Explanation of Names

Anthonomus grandis Boheman 1843

Size

4.0-7.5 mm(1)

Range

Native to Mesoamerica, adventive in the US; used to be widespread across so. US (north to VA-KS-CA)(1), now extirpated from much of the US (map)

Food

hosts: cotton (Gossypium, Malvaceae)(1)

Remarks

First introduced into the US near Brownsville, TX, ca.1892

Internet References

Fact sheets: OK State U. | Ellis & Horton (1999)

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.

Contributed by Ron M. on 2 October, 2008 - 5:27pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 26 September, 2023 - 8:21pm

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