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Genus Dorytomus

Cryptic larvae in poplar catkins - Dorytomus

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 Ellescini

Genus Dorytomus

Other Common Names

Willow Weevil

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in (1), updates in (2)

Explanation of Names

Dorytomus Germar 1817

Numbers

21 spp. in our area(3), ~180 total

Range

widespread Holarctic(3)

Food

associated with Salix and Populus (willow, poplar and aspen; Salicaceae)

Life Cycle

Larvae feed in catkins; one develops in sawfly galls in willow stems(3)

Remarks

our only representative of the subtribe Dorytomina Bedel 1886(4)

Works Cited

1.	A taxonomic revision of the weevil genus Dorytomus in North America (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). O'Brien C.W. 1970. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 60: 1-80.

2.	Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies... O'Brien C.W., Wibmer G.J. 1982. Mem. Am. Ent. Inst. 34: x+382 pp.

3.	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.

4.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2006 - 5:36pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2023 - 3:49pm

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