Species Hylobius warreni - Warren's Root Collar Weevil

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited

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 Molytinae

Tribe Hylobiini (Pine Weevils)

Genus Hylobius

Species warreni (Warren's Root Collar Weevil)

Explanation of Names

Hylobius warreni Wood 1957

Size

8‒11 mm

Range

BC‒LB(1)

Habitat

alpine/boreal species

Life Cycle

Eggs are deposited around the root collars of healthy trees. Larvae feed in the inner bark and cambium of roots and root collars for 1-2 years.(2)

Remarks

Common pest of spruce and pine throughout Canada

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 26 January, 2009 - 7:50pm
Additional contributions by v belov, metrioptera, Marci Hess
Last updated 3 January, 2024 - 9:56pm

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