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Species Hypera meles - Clover Head Weevil

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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 Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Hyperinae
Genus Hypera
Species meles (Clover Head Weevil)

Explanation of Names

Hypera (Dapalinus) meles (Fabricius 1792)

Identification


Det. John Rosenfeld, 2017

Range

adventive in e.NA to SK - Map (1)(2)(3), native to the Palaearctic

Food

hosts include Trifolium, Medicago, Lotus, and other Fabaceae(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NY 1907(2)

Works Cited

1.Polish Biodiversity Information Network • Coleoptera Poloniae
2.The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia...
Majka C.G., Anderson R.S., McCorquodale D.B. 2007. Can. Entomol. 139: 397–442.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2006 - 6:01pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov, onegunah
Last updated 20 May, 2025 - 11:22am

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