Rhyssomatus lineaticollis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
Family: | Curculionidae |
Subfamily: | Molytinae |
Genus: | Rhyssomatus |
Species: | R. lineaticollis |
Binomial name | |
Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (Say, 1824) |
External identifiers for Rhyssomatus lineaticollis | |
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Encyclopedia of Life | 2668047 |
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Rhyssomatus lineaticollis (milkweed stem weevil) is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species Asclepias meadii.