Species Orchidophilus aterrimus - Orchid Weevil

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

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 Baridinae (Flower Weevils)

Tribe Madarini

Genus Orchidophilus

Species aterrimus (Orchid Weevil)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

has been lumped variously with O. epidendri(1)

Explanation of Names

Orchidophilus aterrimus (Waterhouse 1874)

Size

2.7–6.0 mm(1)

Range

Native to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and possibly Thailand, introduced and established on a number of tropical Pacific islands; adventive but not established in Canada, US, some European countries and Brazil(1)

Food

associated with Orchidaceae: Cypripedioideae(1)

Remarks

the most frequently intercepted and noxious species of the genus; earliest record in our area: DC 1906(1)

Works Cited

1.	A synopsis of the orchid weevil genus Orchidophilus Buchanan (Curculionidae, Baridinae), with taxonomic rectifications... Prena J. 2008. Zootaxa 1783: 18–30.

Contributed by v belov on 6 February, 2014 - 6:02pm

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