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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Broad-nosed Weevils (Entiminae) » Eustylini » Diaprepes » Diaprepes Root Weevil (Diaprepes abbreviatus)

Species Diaprepes abbreviatus - Diaprepes Root Weevil

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Curculionoidea (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)
Subfamily Entiminae (Broad-nosed Weevils)
Tribe Eustylini
Genus Diaprepes
Species abbreviatus (Diaprepes Root Weevil)
Other Common Names
Citrus [Root] Weevil, Sugarcane Rootstalk Borer Weevil, Apopka Weevil, Sugarcane Root Weevil, West Indian Sugar Cane Rootstalk Borer
Explanation of Names
Diaprepes abbreviatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
10-19 mm
Identification
color highly variable (from gray to yellow to orange to black)
Range
Native to the Caribbean, adventive and established in so. US: so. & central FL (1964), so. TX (Cameron & Hidalgo Cos 2000, Corpus Christi 2005, Houston 2009; map), so. CA (2005), LA (2008); further north in greenhouses
Food
highly polyphagous; larvae feed on roots, adults on foliage of citrus trees (esp. oranges in TX) and almost 300 other plant species(1)
Remarks
Major pest of citrus crops: larvae often girdle the taproot, which may kill the plant and provide an avenue for Phythophora infections. A single larva can kill young hosts while several larvae can cause serious decline of older, established hosts.
Pest of sugarcane in the Caribbean(2); earliest record in our area: FL 1964(1)
Print References
French J.V., Skaria M. (2000) Citrus root weevil identified. Texas A&M University-Kingsville Citrus Center Newsletter 18(6).
Grafton-Cardwell E.E., Godfrey K.E., Peña J.E., McCoy C.W., Luck R.F. (2004) Diaprepes root weevil. ANR Publication 8131, 8 pp. (Full text)
Woodruff R.E. (1985) Citrus weevils in Florida and the West Indies: preliminary report on systematics, biology, and distribution (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Fla. Entomol. 68(3): 370-379. Full text
Internet References
Fact sheets: Haseeb et al. (2010)(1) | FL(3) | TX
Species page (Quinn 2009)
Works Cited
1.Haseeb M., O'Brien C.W., Kairo M.T.K. (2010) Potentially invasive weevil species from the Caribbean countries to the US...
2.Insects and mites new to Florida sugarcane
Hall D.G., Konstantinov A.S., Hodges G.S., Sosa O., Welbourn C., Westcott R.L. 2005. J. Amer. Soc. Sugar Cane Technologists 25: 143-156.
3.University of Florida: Featured Creatures
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 1 September, 2004 - 7:56pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov, metrioptera
Last updated 18 January, 2019 - 5:41pm

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