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Species Ceutorhynchus rapae - Cabbage Curculio

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Cuculionidae -? - Ceutorhynchus rapae beetle - Ceutorhynchus rapae gray weevil - Ceutorhynchus rapae Weevil - Ceutorhynchus rapae Ceutorhynchus rapae Ceutorhynchus rapae Ceutorhynchus rapae Curculionidae - Tychius picirostris - Clover seed weevil? - Ceutorhynchus rapae

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 Ceutorhynchus
Species rapae (Cabbage Curculio)

Explanation of Names

Ceutorhynchus rapae (Gyllenhal 1837)

Range

adventive and widespread in NA (Canada to Mexico) - Map (1)(2)(3)(4), mostly n. 2/3rds of US and s. Can., native to Europe

Food

hosts: several members of Brassicaceae; occasionally on Cannabis sativa(3)

Remarks

attacks broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and turnip plants by mining the stalks and feeding on the leaves(5)

Internet References

Species page(5)

Works Cited

1.Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae
2.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
3.Catalogue of Ceutorhynchinae of the world, with a key to genera (Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae)
Colonnelli E. 2004. Argania Editio, Barcelona. 124 pp.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.Insectipedia -- Organic Garden Encyclopedia
Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 21 August, 2009 - 11:55pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 November, 2023 - 3:33pm

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