Pecan gall curculio | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Conotrachelus |
Species: | C. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Conotrachelus elegans (Say, 1831)
Schoenherr, 1837
[1]
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Conotrachelus elegans, the pecan gall curculio, is a true weevil species in the genus Conotrachelus. It is found in North America where it feeds on galls of the hickory leaf stem gall phylloxera ( Phylloxera caryaecaulis), found also on pecan.
Pecan gall curculio | |
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Scientific classification
![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Conotrachelus |
Species: | C. elegans
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Binomial name | |
Conotrachelus elegans (Say, 1831)
Schoenherr, 1837
[1]
|
Conotrachelus elegans, the pecan gall curculio, is a true weevil species in the genus Conotrachelus. It is found in North America where it feeds on galls of the hickory leaf stem gall phylloxera ( Phylloxera caryaecaulis), found also on pecan.