Cyrtepistomus castaneus (Roelofs, 1873) 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
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D23D1686-1845-F67B-EAEF-C9B542B65A5B
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Cyrtepistomus castaneus (Roelofs, 1873)
status	new to Quebec

Treatment

Cyrtepistomus castaneus (Roelofs, 1873) new to Quebec

Note.

This adventive Palaearctic species is widespread in the eastern USA into Ontario and is known in USA as the Asiatic oak weevil; it can be extremely common locally ( Anderson 2002), and acts as a minor defoliator of broadleaved trees.

Specimen data.

Quebec: RCM La Côte-de-Gaspé, Gaspé, 27.viii.1966, W. Boyle (1, LEMQ).