''Neochetina bruchi'', the chevroned water hyacinth weevil, is a species of marsh weevil in the
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
family
Brachyceridae
Brachyceridae is a family of weevils. There are at least 150 genera in Brachyceridae. It was treated as a subfamily of Curculionidae.
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in c ...
found in South America. It has been introduced into North America as biocontrol of the invasive plant ''
Eichhornia crassipes
''Pontederia crassipes'' (formerly ''Eichhornia crassipes''), commonly known as common water hyacinth is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive species, invasive outside its native range ...
'' (water hyacinth).
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Brachyceridae
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Beetles described in 1926
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