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Species Mecinus pascuorum

Gymnetron from Virginia (4) 10.05.31 - 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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