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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Minute Seed Weevils (Ceutorhynchinae) » Ceutorhynchini » Glocianus » Glocianus punctiger

Species Glocianus punctiger

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
small weevil - Glocianus punctiger weevil - Glocianus punctiger Weevil 2 - Glocianus punctiger Weevil 3 - Glocianus punctiger Rhinoncus pericarpius? - Glocianus punctiger minute seed weevil - Glocianus punctiger Odontocorynus umbellae - Glocianus punctiger Odontocorynus umbellae - 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)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Glocianus punctiger (C.R. Sahlberg)
Orig. Comb: Ceutorhynchus punctiger C.R. Sahlberg 1835
Range
native to w. Palaearctic (east to C. Asia)(1), adventive and now widespread across NA north NF-YT(2)
Food
Host plant: dandelion; larvae feed on seeds in flower heads(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: probably NB 1940(2)
Works Cited
1.Coleoptera Poloniae
2.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.
Contributed by v belov on 21 May, 2009 - 3:09pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Mike Quinn
Last updated 15 February, 2017 - 9:41am

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