Curculio caryatrypes

TaxID: 3383251

Basic Information

Curculio caryatrypes

Greater Chestnut Weevil

Curculio caryatrypes, the greater chestnut weevil, is a species of weevil in the family Curculionidae. A specialist on the American chestnut, the species was thought to be extinct following the functional extinction of its host. However, it was rediscovered via the community science platform iNaturalist in 2022 on a close relative of the American chestnut, the Allegheny chinquapin.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Curculionidae

Curculio

caryatrypes

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Curculio caryatrypes
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(c) Neal Kelso@BY
Curculio caryatrypes
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(c) Neal Kelso@BY
Curculio caryatrypes
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(c) Neal Kelso@BY
Curculio caryatrypes
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(c) Neal Kelso@BY
Curculio caryatrypes
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(c) Katie Bird@BY

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 (1 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Chile Quarantine pests —

Distribution (2 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

2
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Canada Present —
United States of America Present —

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