Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (Say & T., 1824) is a animal in the Curculionidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (Say & T., 1824)

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (Say & T., 1824)

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis, the milkweed stem weevil, feeds on common milkweed stems and harms the rare threatened Mead's milkweed.

Family
Genus
Rhyssomatus
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (Say & T., 1824)

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis, which has the scientific name Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (Say & T., 1824), is commonly known as the milkweed stem weevil. It is a species of weevil. Adult individuals of this species feed on the stems of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. This weevil is also destructive to Asclepias meadii, a rare and threatened species of milkweed.

Photo: (c) Mike Quinn, San Marcos, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mike Quinn, San Marcos · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae Rhyssomatus

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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