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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Leguminous Seed Weevils (Tychiini) » Tychiina » Tychius » Sweet Clover Weevil (Tychius meliloti)

Species Tychius meliloti - Sweet Clover Weevil

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
small weevil - Tychius meliloti Curculionidae -? - Tychius meliloti small weevil - Tychius meliloti Tychius meliloti Beetle - Tychius meliloti Sweet Clover Weevil? - Tychius meliloti - male - female Tychius meliloti - Tychius meliloti Weevil - Tychius meliloti
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
ref. specimen(2)
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)
Works Cited
1.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
2.MCZ Type Database @ Harvard Entomology
3.Tychius meliloti Stephens new to Canada with a brief review of the species of Tychius Germar introduced into North America...
Anderson R.S., Howden A.T. 1994. Can. Entomol. 126: 1363‒1368.
4.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
5.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
Majka C.G., Anderson R.S., McCorquodale D.B. 2007. Can. Entomol. 139: 397–442.
Contributed by tom murray on 29 January, 2009 - 5:26pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 24 January, 2025 - 6:48pm

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