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Species Neapion xanthoxyli

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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 Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily Apioninae (Pear-shaped Weevils)
Tribe Ixapiini
Genus Neapion
Species xanthoxyli (Neapion xanthoxyli)
Other Common Names
Colima Pear-shaped Weevil
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Neapion (Neotropion) xanthoxyli (Fall) (1)
Orig. Comb: Apion xanthoxyli Fall 1898
Explanation of Names
xanthoxyli refers to the host plant, Zanthoxylum
Size
1.8-2.1 mm (Fall, 1898)
Range
southmost TX (Hidalgo & Cameron Co.) / Mex. (Fall 1898)(2), also San Diego, Duval Co., TX
Season
spring, fall (BG data)
Food
breeds in the seeds of Lime Prickly Ash, Colima (Zanthoxylum fagara, Rutaceae) (Fall 1898)
Remarks
Type Locality: coll'ed by Townsend in Brownsville, Cameron Co., TX
Print References
Fall, H.C. 1898. Revision of species of Apion of America north of Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 25: 105-184. (Full Text)
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.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.