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

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scientific name

Cyrtepistomus castaneus (Roelofs, 1873)
status

new to Quebec

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).