Cleonis pigra

TaxID: 201878

Basic Information

Cleonis pigra

sluggish weevil, Weevil, Large Thistle Weevil

Cleonis pigra, the sluggish weevil or large thistle weevil, is a weevil species recorded in Britain and native to Eurasia. It was introduced into North America to help control creeping thistle. This species develops in the roots of plants in the family Asteraceae. It appears spelled different ways in the literature: Cleonis piger, Cleonus piger, Cleonus pigra, but the correct spelling under ICZN Article 31.2 is Cleonis pigra It is identified by double V-pattern elytra and a rostrum with three sulci.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Cleonis

pigra

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Cleonis pigra
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(c) unknown@CC0
Cleonis pigra
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(c) Katja Schulz@BY
Cleonis pigra
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(c) dingonol@BY-NC
Cleonis pigra
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(c) Brody McAllister@BY-NC
Cleonis pigra
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(c) André Nagelhout@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Peru Absent —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (41 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present —
China Present —
Czechia Present —
Germany Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

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