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Species Callosobruchus chinensis - Southern Cowpea Weevil

Fungus Beetle ? - Callosobruchus chinensis - male

please identify - Callosobruchus chinensis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Bruchinae (Pea and Bean Weevils)

Tribe Bruchini

Subtribe Acanthoscelidina

Genus Callosobruchus

Species chinensis (Southern Cowpea Weevil)

Other Common Names

Oriental Cowpea Bruchid(1), Mung Bean Bruchid, Cowpea Weevil (also applied to C. maculatus), Cowpea Beetle, Adzuki Bean Weevil(2), Adzuki Bean Seed Beetle, Pulse Beetle, Chinese Bean Weevil, Chinese Bruchid

Explanation of Names

Callosobruchus chinensis (Linnaeus 1758)

Size

2.7–3.0 mm(3)

Range

native to temperate Asia(4), adventive elsewhere (now tropicopolitan); in our area, recorded across the US & Canada (north to NS-QC-CA; in Canada, found occasionally in imported beans and does not survive in the wild(3)(5)(6)(7)

Food

hosts: various Fabaceae + Nelumbo (Nelumbonaceae)(3); known to switch to wild legumes in many areas outside its native range(4)

Remarks

widely used as lab model for research(3); may severely damage stored pulses of legumes(4)

Internet References

Fact sheets: anon. (2013)(8) | Schmidt (2011) (wikimedia) | Walker (2011)(9) |

Works Cited

1.	A Dictionary of Entomology George Gordh, David H. Headrick. 2003. CABI Publishing.

2.	Thesaurus of agricultural organisms: pests, weeds and diseases Derwent Publications (compilers/eds.). 1990. London: Chapman and Hall, 2 vols, 2368 pp.

3.	Handbook of the Bruchidae of the United States and Canada Kingsolver J.M. 2004. USDA Tech. Bull. 1912 (2 vols.).

4.	Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.

5.	Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: An identification guide Bousquet Y. 1990. Research Branch Agriculture Canada, Publication 1837.

6.	The Bean Weevils (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) of Atlantic Canada Majka C.G., Langor D. 2011. J. Acad. Entomol. Soc. 7: 75-82.

7.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

8.	Canadian Grain Commission: insect pests of stored grain

9.	PaDIL – High quality images and information tools designed for Biosecurity and Biodiversity

Contributed by v belov on 21 January, 2014 - 10:56am
Last updated 7 February, 2014 - 6:49pm

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