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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Minute Seed Weevils (Ceutorhynchinae) » Ceutorhynchini » Microplontus » Microplontus campestris

Species Microplontus campestris

Classification · Range · Food · Works Cited
weevil - Microplontus campestris weevil - Microplontus campestris Beetle - Microplontus campestris Beetle - Microplontus campestris weevil beetle - Microplontus campestris weevil beetle - Microplontus campestris Microplontus campestris Microplontus campestris
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 Microplontus
Species campestris (Microplontus campestris)
Range
native to Europe, unintentionally introduced to NA (ca. 1970) and now known from ON(1), PA, and MA (BG photos)
Food
apparently monophagous on Chrysanthemum leucanthemum (Asteraceae)(1)
Works Cited
1.Some Palearctic weevils in the subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) recently discovered in North America
Anderson R.S., Korotyaev B.A. 2004. Can. Entomol. 136: 233–239.
Contributed by tom murray on 6 June, 2011 - 4:49pm
Additional contributions by urtica, v belov
Last updated 17 March, 2022 - 10:00am

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