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Species Larinus carlinae - Canada Thistle Bud 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 Lixinae
Tribe Lixini
Genus Larinus
No Taxon (subgenus Phyllonomeus)
Species carlinae (Canada Thistle Bud Weevil)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
planus Fabricius, 1792
Explanation of Names
Larinus carlinae (Olivier 1807) name priority by Hoebeke and Spichiger 2016
Size
5-8 mm
Range
native to Europe, introduced to NA
Season
Around the flowering season of its host plant
Food
hosts: thistles (Cirsium)
Life Cycle
Larvae develop in buds of thistles, especially Canada Thistle
Remarks
introduced to control invasive thistle in the 1960s (was later found to infect some native thistles)
Internet References
Species page(1)
Fact sheet(2)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303506290
Works Cited
1.Funk W. (2007-2013) Insekten-Box
2.Breitenfeldt T., ed. (1999-) Montana war on weeds
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 21 November, 2006 - 6:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ghanley1, Boris Bueche, Ron M., v belov, onegunah, Russell Rogers
Last updated 23 December, 2021 - 4:53pm

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