Curculio
| Curculio | |
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| A filbert weevil (Curculio occidentis) on an acorn cap | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Subfamily: | Curculioninae |
| Genus: | Curculio Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | |
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About 30; see text | |
Curculio larva emerging from Chinese chestnut acorn
Curculio is a genus of weevils belonging the family Curculionidae and subfamily Curculioninae.[1][2] Members of the genus are commonly referred to as acorn weevils or nut weevils as they infest the seeds of trees such as oaks and hickories. The adult female weevil bores a tiny hole in the immature nut to lay her eggs, which then hatch into legless grubs. In autumn, the grubs bore holes through the shells from the inside to emerge into the soil where they may live for a year or two before maturing into adults.[3]
Species[]
Species of Curculio include:
- Chittenden, 1927
- Curculio caryae (Horn, 1873) (pecan weevil)
- (Boheman, 1843)
- (Patton, 1897)
- Curculio confusor (Hamilton, 1893)
- Curculio elephas (Gyllenhal 1836) (chestnut weevil)
- Curculio fulvus Chittenden, 1927
- Curculio glandium Marsham, 1802 (acorn weevil)
- Curculio humeralis (Casey, 1897)
- Curculio iowensis (Casey, 1910)
- Curculio longidens Chittenden, 1927
- Chittenden, 1927
- Chittenden, 1927
- (Casey, 1897)
- (Casey, 1897)
- Curculio nasicus (Say, 1831)
- Harrington, 1881
- Curculio nucum Linnaeus, 1758 (nut weevil)
- Curculio obtusus (Blanchard, 1884) (hazelnut weevil)
- Curculio occidentis Casey, T.L., 1897 (filbert weevil)
- Curculio orthorhynchus (Chittenden, 1908)
- Curculio pardalis (Chittenden, 1908)
- Curculio pardus Chittenden, 1927
- Curculio proboscideus Fabricius, 1775
- (Chittenden, 1908)
- Gyllenhal, L. in Schönherr, CJ., 1836
- Gibson, 1969
- Curculio sayi (Gyllenhal, 1836) (small chestnut weevil)
- (Casey, 1897)
- Curculio sulcatulus (Casey, 1897)
- (Casey, 1910)
- Curculio uniformis (LeConte, 1857) (filbert weevil)
- Curculio victoriensis (Chittenden, 1904)
- Chittenden, 1927
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Lester P. Gibson (1969). Monograph of the genus Curculio in the New World (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). College Park, Maryland: Entomological Society of America.
- ^ Frank W. Pelsue, Jr. & Runzhi Zhang (2000). "A review of the genus Curculio L. from China with descriptions of new taxa. Part I (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Curculionini)". . 54 (2): 125–142. doi:10.1649/0010-065X(2000)054[0125:AROTGC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4009530.
- ^ Otto Kumpe & Dwight Isely (1936). "Notes on biologies of nut infesting weevils". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 9 (1): 13–16. JSTOR 25081433.
External links[]
Media related to Curculio at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Curculio at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Curculioninae
- Curculionidae genera
- Beetles described in 1758
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Curculioninae stubs