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Species Bagous americanus

Curculionidae, dorsal - Bagous americanus Curculionidae, lateral - Bagous americanus Curculionidae, head - Bagous americanus weevil - Bagous americanus - female Curculionoidea - Bagous americanus weevil - Bagous americanus weevil - Bagous americanus
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 Bagoinae
Genus Bagous
Species americanus (Bagous americanus)
Explanation of Names
Bagous americanus LeConte 1876
Size
3.5-4.0 mm(1)
Range
e. US & adjacent Canada (QC-MN to FL-MS)(2)
Food
on water lilies (Nymphaea)(2)
Life Cycle
mines the leaves, pupates in the crown of the petiole
Remarks
Often adults sit on the underwater edge of the leaves in the daytime. They can be collected by finding mined leaves and turnimg them gently to see the weevils. At night the adults come onto the top of the leaves to find mates and to replenish air supply.
Works Cited
1.Weevils of South Carolina (Coleoptera: Nemonychidae, Attelabidae, Brentidae, Ithyceridae, and Curculionidae).
Janet C. Ciegler. 2010. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. 276 pp.
2.A catalog of Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. Curculionidae: Erirhininae
O'Brien C.W., Anderson D.M. 1996. USDA Agriculture handbook no. 529-143f. 40 pp.