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Species Euophryum confine - New Zealand Wood Weevil

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 Cossoninae

Tribe Pentarthrini

Genus Euophryum

Species confine (New Zealand Wood Weevil)

Explanation of Names

Euophryum confine (Broun 1880)

Size

2.5-3.6 mm(1)

Range

native to New Zealand(2), adventive in NA (NF) and w. Europe (widespread)(3)(4)

Habitat

decaying wood(3); in NZ, common in woodlands, both in standing and fallen trees(2)

Food

attacks both softwood and hardwood but most commonly the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris); association with Coniophora puteana (cellar rot), Serpula lacrymans (dry rot), and Antrodia (Fibroporia) vaillantii (white rot)(2)

Remarks

secondary pest of building timbers since it is found exclusively in timbers undergoing fungal decay; population declines fast as the wood dries up(2)

Internet References

Species page(1)

Works Cited

1.	WCG – Website of the Watford Coleoptera Group

2.	Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.

3.	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.

4.	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.

Contributed by v belov on 28 February, 2014 - 8:25pm
Last updated 3 March, 2014 - 4:37pm

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