Species Ithycerus noveboracensis - New York Weevil

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited

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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 Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)

Subfamily Ithycerinae

Genus Ithycerus

Species noveboracensis (New York Weevil)

Explanation of Names

Ithycerus noveboracensis (Forster 1771)

Size

12-18 mm(1)

Range

e NA (QC-ON-NE to FL-TX)(2)(3)

Habitat

adults found mostly on the limbs/foliage of many hardwoods (beech, oak, hickory, chestnut, crabapple, peach/plum trees, etc.); larvae inside roots of the same plants, primarily on lower surfaces of lateral roots(1)(2)

Season

May-Jul(2)

Food

Adults feed on soft parts (new growth, petioles, buds); larvae, on outer vascular tissues of roots(1)

Life Cycle

2-year life cycle: most of the summer and subsequent year is spent as larva; pupation in May/Jun of the second year(2)

Remarks

rarely encountered(1) but occasionally a pest in orchards(2)

Works Cited

1.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

2.	The weevils of Canada and Alaska: Vol. 1. Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, excluding Scolytidae and Curculionidae Bright D.E. 1993. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 21. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 217 pp.

3.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

Contributed by Christopher C Wirth on 6 January, 2006 - 10:41am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 January, 2019 - 6:05pm

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