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Species Merhynchites wickhami - Western Rose Curculio

Western Rose Curculio - Merhynchites wickhami

Merhynchites bicolor? - Merhynchites wickhami

Attelabidae: Merhynchites wickhami - Merhynchites wickhami

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 Attelabidae (Leaf Rolling Weevils)

Subfamily Rhynchitinae (Leaf and Bud Weevils)

Tribe Rhynchitini

Genus Merhynchites

Species wickhami (Western Rose Curculio)

Explanation of Names

Merhynchites wickhami Cockerell 1912

Range

sw. Canada and w. US east to ND-IL-TX (C.W. O'Brien's comment and(1))

Food

develops in Rosa buds(1)

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.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 13 July, 2009 - 9:33am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 13 August, 2014 - 5:41pm

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