Naupactus cervinus
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Naupactus |
| Species: | N. cervinus |
| Binomial name | |
| Naupactus cervinus Boheman, 1840 | |
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Naupactus cervinus, the Fuller rose beetle or Fuller's rose weevil, is a species of broad-nosed weevil in the family Curculionidae.[1][2][3][4] Native to South America, it has been in North America since the 19th century, and has also been introduced to Europe, South Africa, and Australia.[3][5] This species is believed to reproduce parthogenically, without fertilisation, as no male specimens have ever been found.[5][6]
N. cervinus grows to 6.5-8 mm in length[6] and is highly polyphagous, feeding on leaves, buds, roots, flowers and larvae.[3]
Description
Adults are brown-grey in colour with laterally positioned eyes. The rostrum is slightly curved downward, and the elytra is fused, rendering the weevil flightless.[6]
Eggs are small, cylindrical and yellow, measuring about 1 mm in length.[6] They are laid in a mass and covered by a sticky, white excretion. Larvae are white with a yellow-ish head capsule and black mandibles, measuring 10-12 mm.[6]
Biology
Females lay up to 1000 eggs in their lifetime.[6] Eggs are usually laid under stones or in bark crevasses, on leaves, or in the calyx lobes of fruit. After two to six weeks the eggs hatch, the larvae dropping to the ground, burrowing, and feeds on roots for the next eight to ten months.[6]
Adults live for three to eight months.[6]
Host plants of N. cervinus include beans, citrus fruits, peaches, rhubarb, roses, potatoes, wattles, walnuts, avocado, bananas, passionfruit and apples.[6]
References
- ↑ "Naupactus cervinus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ↑ "Naupactus cervinus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- 1 2 3 "Naupactus cervinus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ↑ "Naupactus cervinus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- 1 2 Hogue, Charles L.; Hogue, James N. (2015). Insects of the Los Angeles Basin (3rd ed.). Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 341–342. ISBN 978-0938644-44-6. LCCN 93084264. OCLC 910654655.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gyeltshen, Jamba; Hodges, Amanda (February 2016). "Fuller Rose Beetle, Naupactus godmanni (Crotch) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae)". Agricultural and Horticultural Enterprises.
Further reading
- Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Lyal, Christopher H.C. (1999). A World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (Excepting Scotylidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis. ISBN 84-605-9994-9.
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Bright, Donald E.; Bouchard, Patrice (2008). "Insects and Arachnids of Canada Series, Part 25. Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae". NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Brown, S.D.J. (2017). "Austromonticola, a new genus of broad-nosed weevil (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae) from montane areas of New Zealand". ZooKeys (707): 73–130. Bibcode:2017ZooK..707...73B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.707.12649. PMC 5674147. PMID 29118629.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - O'Brien, Charles W.; Wibmer, Guillermo J. (1982). "Annotated checklist of the weevils (Curculionidae sensu lato) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute (34).
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
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