The New York weevil (Ithycerus noveboracensis) is a species of primitive weevil; large for weevils (12–18 mm), it is covered with fine bristles and has a regular pattern of light and dark spots. It occurs in the eastern United States and southern Canada.
The rostrum (snout) is broad and stout, while the antennae are straight and thin, with the final three antennomeres making a small club.
This weevil is found in association with various plants of Fagaceae, Betulaceae, and Juglandaceae, in particular white oak and American beech. Adults feed on new growth and other soft parts, such as leaf petioles and buds. They lay their eggs in the ground, and the grubs then eat the roots of the same plants.
Though it was originally placed in Curculionidae, coleopterists have long agreed that Ithycerus belongs in a different family, as it does not have geniculate (elbowed) antennae, a characteristic of true weevils. It has been traditionally considered as the only species in its own family, Ithyceridae, but more recent classifications place it as the sole member of the subfamily Ithycerinae in the family Brentidae.
The NewYorkweevil (Ithycerus noveboracensis) is a species of primitive weevil; large for weevils (12–18 mm), it is covered with fine bristles and has...
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worms" are the closely related Coleopteran family Phengodidae, while in New Zealand and Australia, a "glow worm" is a luminescent larva of the fungus...
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their associated adaptations. Ulomoides dermestoides, known as "chinese weevil", "peanut beetle", "cancer beetle", or "asthma beetle", is eaten in Argentina...
"Annotated Checklist of the New World Lucanidae". Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2007-09-14. Checklist of New World stag beetles with...
"Wikispecies: Microweiseinae". 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2013. "coccinellid". The New Oxford Dictionary of English. Clarendon Press. 1998. p. 351. ISBN 0-19-861263-X...
The Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, Alabama, United States is a prominent landmark and tribute erected by the citizens of Enterprise in 1919...
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found only in Australia and New Guinea; usually in rain forests Castiarina – about 500 species, found only in Australia and New Guinea, previously considered...
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Elateridae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: faunal composition, new records, and taxonomic changes" (PDF excerpt). Zootaxa. 1811: 1–33. doi:10...
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Scarabaeiformia. Around 35,000 species are placed in this superfamily and some 200 new species are described each year. Its constituent families are also undergoing...
and skin beetles Cucujiformia — includes lady beetles, longhorn beetles, weevils, checkered beetles and leaf beetles Elateriformia — includes click beetles...
forest caterpillar hunter (C. sycophanta), native to Europe, were shipped to New England for biological control of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) as early...
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