Otiorhynchus ligustici (Linnaeus, 1758) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 33

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.309.4667

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scientific name

Otiorhynchus ligustici (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

new to Quebec

Otiorhynchus ligustici (Linnaeus, 1758) new to Quebec

Note.

This adventive Palaearctic species was known in Canada only from Ontario ( Bright and Bouchard 2008). Also known as the alfalfa snout beetle this species is a major pest of alfalfa.

Specimen data.

Quebec: MRC Beauharnois-Salaberry, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, 13.vi.2012, on grasses under Salix , Populus and Vitis riparia , Y. Racine (1, CPTO).

Bright, DE, Bouchard, P, 2008. Weevils of Canada and Alaska. Volume 2. Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae.NRC Research Press, Ottawa, i-xiii + 327 pp.