New York weevil
| New York weevil | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Brentidae |
| Subfamily: | Ithycerinae |
| Genus: | Ithycerus |
| Species: | I. noveboracensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Ithycerus noveboracensis Forster, 1771
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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
antennomeres
making a small club.
This weevil is found in association with various plants of
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.
References
Wikispecies has information related to New York weevil.
- Robert S. Anderson, "Ithyceridae", in Ross H. Arnett Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, American Beetles (CRC Press, 2002), vol. 2
- M. Sanborne, "Biology of Ithycerus noveboracensis (Forster) (Coleoptera) and weevil phylogeny", Evolutionary Monographs 4: 1-80 (1981)