Conotrachelus elegans

Pecan gall curculio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Molytinae
Tribe: Conotrachelini
Genus: Conotrachelus
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Conotrachelus elegans
(Say, 1831) Schoenherr, 1837[1]

Conotrachelus elegans, the pecan gall curculio, is a true weevil species in the genus Conotrachelus. It is found in North America where it feeds on galls of the hickory leaf stem gall phylloxera (Phylloxera caryaecaulis), found also on pecan.

References

  1. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. CJ Schoenherr, L Gyllenhaal, KH Boheman - 1837

External links

Conotrachelus elegans at the Encyclopedia of Life

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