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Rhyssomatus lineaticollis

Rhyssomatus lineaticollis
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)

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.



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