Pissodes strobi

TaxID: 49927

Basic Information

Pissodes strobi

White Pine Weevil, White-pine Weevil

Pissodes strobi, known as the white pine weevil or Engelmann spruce weevil, is the primary weevil attacking and destroying white pines. It was described in 1817 by William Dandridge Peck, professor of natural history and botany at Harvard University. The weevil is dark brown with white spots and is native to North America. The eggs are laid inside a tree, usually white pine, Sitka spruce, white spruce, Engelmann spruce, or other pine or spruce, and the offspring feed on this tree until the host is killed. Terminals or shoots, as well as needles from pine or spruce, is what the diet of adult white pine weevils consists of.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Pissodes

strobi

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(c) Eric Knopf@BY-NC
Pissodes strobi
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(c) Eric Knopf@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Mature larvae are described as legless grubs with a distinct brown head. Adults are small weevils (4–6 mm long) with a long snout-like beak, and their bodies are covered with irregular patches of brown and white scales, with a large white patch near the apex of each elytron.

Source: NCBI Life Stage: Adult / Larva Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

Williams, D.J.M., & Langor, D.W. (2002). Description of mature larvae of the four species of the Pissodes strobi complex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 134(1), 1-17.

Host Plants (24 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

Scientific Name Status
Picea abies Host
Picea engelmannii Host
Picea glauca Host
Picea mariana Host
Picea omorika Host
Picea pungens Host
Picea rubens Host
Picea sitchensis Host
Pinus balfouriana Host
Pinus banksiana Host
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Quarantine Status (52 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Austria Quarantine pests 2019
Belgium Unknow 2019
Bulgaria Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
Belarus Absent —
Switzerland A1 list 2019
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
China Quarantine pests 2021
Cyprus Quarantine pest ((EU) 2019/2072 Annex II A) 2019
Czechia Quarantine pests 2019
Germany Unknow 2019
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Distribution (8 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

2
Present
6
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Belgium Absent —
Canada Absent
Canada Present
Lithuania Absent —
Mexico Absent —
Netherlands Absent —
Slovenia Absent —
United States of America Present

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_016904865.1 Scaffold 2025 24 105 -
FASTA GFF3

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (47 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SMTPL879-15 BOLD:AAY3807 COI-5P 658 Canada 2015-04-20 43.798, -79.37
SMTPB12957-13 BOLD:AAY3807 COI-5P 652 Canada 2013-04-22 43.511, -80.383
MPCAN139-17 BOLD:ACR7332 COI-5P 625 Canada 2017-05-16 44.563, -76.549
GBCL49420-19 - COI-3P 534 - - -
GBCL47761-19 - COI-3P 824 - - -
GBCL47760-19 - COI-3P 824 - - -
GBCL47759-19 - COI-3P 824 - - -
GBCL47758-19 - COI-3P 824 - - -
GBCL47757-19 - COI-3P 824 - - -
GBCL47756-19 - COI-3P 824 - - -
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Literature