Rhyssomatus lineaticollis

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Curculionoidea
Family:	Curculionidae
Subfamily:	Molytinae
Genus:	Rhyssomatus
Species:	R. lineaticollis
Binomial name
	Rhyssomatus lineaticollis; (Say, 1824)

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (milkweed stem weevil) is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca.^[1] It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species Asclepias meadii.^[2]

R. lineaticollis on milkweed bud

References[]

^ "Species Rhyssomatus lineaticollis". Retrieved October 15, 2008.
^ Betz, R. F. (1989). Ecology of Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii) Torrey. in Proceedings of the 11th North American Prairie Conference; 1989; University of Nebraska, Lincoln. p 187-191.

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[1] "Species Rhyssomatus lineaticollis". Retrieved October 15, 2008.

[betz-2] Betz, R. F. (1989). Ecology of Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii) Torrey. in Proceedings of the 11th North American Prairie Conference; 1989; University of Nebraska, Lincoln. p 187-191.

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