Orchestes fagi

Orchestes fagi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Curculionidae
Genus:	Orchestes
Species:	O. fagi
Binomial name
Orchestes fagi (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]

Orchestes fagi , beech leaf-miner beetle, ^[2] is a species of weevil native to Europe. ^{[3] [4] [5]} The larvae mine the leaves of beech (Fagus species). ^[6] It is an invasive species in Canada where it is damaging to American beech. ^[7]

References

1. Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm
2. "Orchestes fagi - Wikispecies".
3. Fauna Europaea
4. Morris, M.G. (2012) True Weevils. (Coleoptera: Curculioninae, Baridinae, Oroitidinae). Part III. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 5 (17d).
5. Hoffmann, A. (1950, 1954, 1958) Coléoptères curculionides. Parties I, II, III. Paris: Éditions Faune de France. Bibliothèque virtuelle numérique pdfs Archived 2017-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
6. "Orchestes fagi (Linnaeus, 1758)". British leafminers. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
7. Morrison, Andrew; Sweeney, Jon; Hughes, Cory; Johns, Rob C. (2016). "Hitching a ride: firewood as a potential pathway for range expansion of an exotic beech leaf-mining weevil, Orchestes fagi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 149 (1): 129–137. doi:10.4039/tce.2016.42. ISSN   0008-347X. S2CID   90555005.

External links

• Media related to Orchestes fagi at Wikimedia Commons