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Species Otiorhynchus porcatus

Weevil - Maybe Otiorhynchus porcatus ? - Otiorhynchus porcatus

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 Otiorhynchini

Genus Otiorhynchus

Species porcatus (Otiorhynchus porcatus)

Explanation of Names

Otiorhynchus (Lolatismus) porcatus (Herbst 1795)

Numbers

subg. Lolatismus Reitter 1912 contains a total of 12 spp.(1)

Size

3.5-5.0 mm(2)

Range

native to central and n. Europe, adventive in NA (NF-ON, ME, BC)(3)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: QC 1937(4)

Works Cited

1.	BioLib.cz

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

3.	First record of the Palearctic root weevil Otiorhynchus porcatus (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) in the US... Hoebeke E.R., Griffin S.R. 2015. Col. Bull. 69: 679-687.

4.	Otiorhynchus porcatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): a European root weevil newly discovered in the Canadian Maritime Provinces C.G. Majka & J.S. MacIvor. 2009. J. Acad. Entomol. Soc. 5: 27-31.

Contributed by v belov on 16 May, 2009 - 4:48pm
Last updated 14 February, 2025 - 10:24pm

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