Rhyssomatus lineaticollis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Genus: | Rhyssomatus |
Species: | R. lineaticollis
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Binomial name | |
Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (
Say, 1824)
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Rhyssomatus lineaticollis, also known by its common name milkweed stem weevil is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. [1] It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species Asclepias meadii. [2]