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Species Tychius meliloti - Sweet Clover Weevil

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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 Tychiini (Leguminous Seed Weevils)
Subtribe Tychiina
Genus Tychius
Species meliloti (Sweet Clover Weevil)
Explanation of Names
Tychius meliloti Stephens 1831
Size
2‒2.5 mm(1)
Identification
Range
native to Europe, adventive elsewhere; in NA, transcontinental in the north(3)(4) (south to CA‒OK‒VA per BG data)
Food
host: sweetclover (Melilotus spp., Fabaceae)(3)
Remarks
introduced ca. 1975(5)