Acanthoscelides obtectus

TaxID: 200917

Basic Information

Acanthoscelides obtectus

American Seed Beetle, Bean Weevil

Acanthoscelides obtectus, the bean weevil, is a species of bruchid beetle. The species was described in 1831 by Thomas Say. Bean weevils feed primarily on the seeds of common beans but also feed on the seeds of peas, vetches, and many other leguminous plants. They have also been reported to develop on the seeds of a few non-legumes, such as maize and buckwheat. Bean weevils are pests of legume seeds both in field and in storage. Only the larvae feed on seeds: the adults feed on pollen. Originating in mountainous regions of northern South America, it has been inadvertently introduced to Central America, then around the world in grain shipments.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Chrysomelidae

Acanthoscelides

obtectus

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Thijs Valkenburg@BY-NC
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(c) Lina Kaminskaitė@BY-NC
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(c) Claudio Maureira@BY-NC-SA
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(c) Claudio Maureira@BY-NC-SA
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(c) Cecilia Bouman@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (4 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Quarantine Status (38 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Austria RNQP ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex IV) 2019
Belgium RNQP ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex IV) 2019
Burkina Faso Absent —
Bulgaria RNQP ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex IV) 2019
Cambodia Quarantine pests —
Switzerland Regulated non-quarantine pest 2019
China Quarantine pests 2021
Cyprus RNQP ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex IV) 2019
Czechia RNQP ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex IV) 2019
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Distribution (100 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

99
Present
1
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Angola Present —
Albania Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present
Austria Present —
Burundi Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_933228535.1 Contig 2206 791 791 -

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature