Global InformationCurculio glandium information
| Curculio glandium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Curculioninae |
| Genus: | Curculio |
| Species: | C. glandium
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| Binomial name | |
| Curculio glandium Marsham, 1802
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Curculio glandium, commonly known as the acorn weevil, is a species of European carpophagus weevil in the genus Curculio, the acorn and nut weevils.[1] It eats by a rostrum, an elongated snout, that is used for piercing.
- ^ CSÓKA, György. "Direct Effects of Carpophagous Insects on the Germination Ability and Early Abscission of Oak Acorns". Department of Forest Protection, Forest Research Institute, Mátrafüred, Hungary.