Sitona cylindricollis Fåhraeus, 1840 is a animal in the Curculionidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Sitona cylindricollis Fåhraeus, 1840

Sitona cylindricollis Fåhraeus, 1840

Sitona cylindricollis, the sweetclover weevil, is a North American broad-nosed weevil that pests sweetclover and alfalfa.

Family
Genus
Sitona
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Sitona cylindricollis Fåhraeus, 1840

Sitona cylindricollis, commonly known as the sweetclover weevil, is a species of broad-nosed weevil belonging to the beetle family Curculionidae. It is found in North America. In this region, it acts as a pest of sweetclover and alfalfa. The larvae of this weevil feed on the root nodules of these host plants, and eventually pupate near the soil surface.

Photo: (c) Tom Murray, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Tom Murray · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae Sitona

More from Curculionidae

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

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