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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Mecinini » Mecinus » Mecinus pascuorum

Species Mecinus pascuorum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Works Cited
Gymnetron from Virginia (2) 10.06.17 - Mecinus pascuorum Gymnetron from Virginia (3) 10.05.31 - Mecinus pascuorum Curculionid - Mecinus pascuorum small weevil - Mecinus pascuorum small weevil - Mecinus pascuorum Species ID please - Mecinus pascuorum Plantain Weevil - Mecinus pascuorum Hairy brown weevil - Mecinus pascuorum
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 Mecinini
Genus Mecinus
Species pascuorum (Mecinus pascuorum)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gymnetron pascuorum
Explanation of Names
Mecinus pascuorum (Gyllenhal 1813)
Size
1.5-2.1 mm(1)
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (introduced ca. 1956) and known from se. Canada, BC, and scattered locations throughout the US(2)
Food
host: plantain (Plantago lanceolata)(2)
Works Cited
1.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
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.
Contributed by v belov on 7 June, 2009 - 6:55pm
Last updated 6 June, 2015 - 7:40am

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