Atrichonotus taeniatulus (Berg, 1881) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 33

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.309.4667
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EC331D6E-7BE9-2EE7-22E3-63CDF211B16E
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Atrichonotus taeniatulus (Berg, 1881)
status	new to Canada

Treatment

Atrichonotus taeniatulus (Berg, 1881) new to Canada

Note.

This adventive species, the adults of which feed on the roots and foliage of a variety of host plants (although most frequently on Fabaceae ), was known previously in North America from southeastern USA west to Texas ( Anderson 2002). This species can be an important pest of alfalfa ( Medicago sativa L., Fabaceae ).

Specimen data.

Quebec: MRC La Vallée-du-Richelieu, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, 25.v.1999, H. Miquet-Sage (1, CHMS).