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Species Epicaerus imbricatus - Imbricated Snout Beetle

Curculionidae, lateral - Epicaerus imbricatus

Curculionidae, Broad-nosed Weevil - Epicaerus imbricatus

Epicaerus imbricatus? - Epicaerus imbricatus - male - female

18May2017.pgtcenter.HN.Coleo1 - Epicaerus imbricatus - 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 Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)

Tribe Geonemini

Genus Epicaerus

Species imbricatus (Imbricated Snout Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Epicaerus imbricatus (Say 1824)

imbricatus = 'shingled'

Size

6-9 mm(1); 6.5-11.5 mm(2)

Range

e. US (NY-GA to MN-SD-CO-TX) & Mex. - Map (1)(3)(4) (mostly upper midwest to c. TX)

Habitat

common on various legumes(2)

Season

May-Jul in KS(2)

Food

Charged in the literature with serious depredations on apple, bean, beet, blackberry, cabbage, cherry, clover, corn, cotton, cucumber, gooseberry, muskmelon, onion, peach, pear, plum, potato, radish, raspberry, strawberry, squash, tomato and watermelon. Some other species of the genus may be responsible for part of these records. (Pierce 1910)

Print References

Pierce W.D. (1910) Some new species of weevils of economic importance. Journal of Economic Entomology 3: 356-366. Full text

Pierce W.D. (1913) Miscellaneous contributions to the knowledge of the weevils of the families Attelabidae and Brachyrhinidae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 45: 365-426.

Works Cited

1.	Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 25. Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae. Donald E. Bright, Patrice Bouchard. 2008. 2008. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

2.	Weevils of Kansas - A Manual for Identification Glenn Arthur Salsbury. 2000. Private/Self.

3.	Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies... O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 28 October, 2008 - 5:14am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 May, 2019 - 7:36am

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