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Species Glocianus punctiger

Representative Images

small weevil - Glocianus punctiger Small Snout Beetle - Glocianus punctiger beetle - Glocianus punctiger Glocianus - Glocianus punctiger Weevil - Glocianus punctiger Rhinoncus pericarpius? - Glocianus punctiger Odontocorynus umbellae - Glocianus punctiger Ceutorhynchinae, Minute Seed Weevil, dorsal - Glocianus punctiger

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 Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)
Tribe Ceutorhynchini
Genus Glocianus
Species punctiger (Glocianus punctiger)

Explanation of Names

Glocianus punctiger (C.R. Sahlberg 1835)

Size

2.4‒3.2 mm

Range

native to w.Palaearctic (east to C.Asia)(1), adventive and now widespread across NA north to NF‒YT(2)

Food

Host plant: dandelion; larvae feed on seeds in flower heads(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: OH 1906(3)

Works Cited

1.Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae
2.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.
3.Adventive weevils recorded from North America: A review and illustrated manual for their identification...
Hoebeke E.R., LaBonte J.R., Loeffler K.E. 2024. Coleopterists Soc. Special Publication 5: 1–604, 219 plates.
Contributed by v belov on 21 May, 2009 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Mike Quinn
Last updated 15 March, 2025 - 12:32am

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