Mecinus janthinus (Germar, 1821) 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 : 22-23

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B09DBF67-1413-C5EB-0A5B-BE2140697520

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scientific name

Mecinus janthinus (Germar, 1821)
status

new to Quebec

Mecinus janthinus (Germar, 1821) new to Quebec

Note.

This adventive Palaearctic stem-mining weevil was introduced for the biological control of toadflaxes, Linaria spp. ( Scrophulariaceae ), and was known from Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia ( Majka et al. 2007b, De Clerck-Floate and Cárcamo 2011).

Specimen data.

Quebec: MRC Marguerite-D’Youville, Varennes ( Verchères), 30.vii.2011, 9.v., 12.v., 14.v., 24.v.2012, 1.vi.2012, C. Chantal (11, CCCH); MRC Pierre-De Saurel, Sorel-Tracy, 14.v.2012, C. Chantal (1, CCCH).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Mecinus