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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Curculioninae » Leguminous Seed Weevils (Tychiini) » Tychiina » Sibinia » Ebony Sibinia Weevil (Sibinia pallida)

Species Sibinia pallida - Ebony Sibinia Weevil

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Sibinia pallida (Schaeffer) - Sibinia pallida

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 Tychiini (Leguminous Seed Weevils)

Subtribe Tychiina

Genus Sibinia

Species pallida (Ebony Sibinia Weevil)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sibinia pallida (Schaeffer)

Orig. Comb: Tychius pallidus Schaeffer 1908

Numbers

22 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

Length: male 1.44-1.75 mm,

female 1.47-1.71 mm (2)

Identification

See Schaeffer (1908)

Range

s. TX / ne Mex. (2), one of the most commonly coll'ed beetle sp. via beating at Laguna Atascosa NWR, Rio Hondo, Cameron Co., TX (3)

Season

mostly: Mar-Aug (2)

Adults ... most abundant when the host bears flower buds. (2)

Food

Occurs on Texas Ebony - Ebenopsis ebano (=Pithecellobium flexicaule). (W. E. Clark, pers. comm.)

Larvae feed in reproductive structures (Clark 1978)

Life Cycle

Larvae were parasitized by Zatropis sp. (Pteromalidae) which emerged after larvae formed pupal cells. (2)

Remarks

Type Locality: Brownsville, Texas (Schaeffer 1908)

Print References

Clark, W.E. 1978. The weevil genus Sibinia: natural history, taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography, with revision of the New World species. Quaestiones Entomolgicae 14(2): 91-387. (2)

Schaeffer, C. 1908. New Rhynchophora III. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 16: 213-222. (Full Text)

Internet References

Type Info - Smithsonian

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	The weevil genus Sibinia: natural history, taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography. Wayne E. Clark. 1978. Quaestiones Entomolgicae 14(2): 91-387.

3.	Beetle biodiversity response to vegetation restoration of mid-valley riparian woodland in the LRGV of southern Texas. King, J.E. 2015. Unpublished master's thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station. viii + 218 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 20 June, 2009 - 10:37am
Last updated 19 May, 2021 - 1:25pm

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