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''Rhyssomatus lineaticollis'', also known by its common name milkweed stem weevil is a
Ecology of Mead's milkweed (''Asclepias meadii'') Torrey.
in Proceedings of the 11th North American Prairie Conference; 1989; University of Nebraska, Lincoln. p 187-191.
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of weevil
Weevils are beetles belonging to the Taxonomic rank, superfamily Curculionoidea, known for their elongated snouts. They are usually small, less than in length, and Herbivore, herbivorous. Approximately 97,000 species of weevils are known. They b ...
whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, ''Asclepias syriaca
''Asclepias syriaca'', commonly called common milkweed, butterfly flower, silkweed, silky swallow-wort, and Virginia silkweed, is a species of flowering plant. It is native to southern Canada and much of the United States east of the Rocky Moun ...
''. It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed species ''Asclepias meadii
''Asclepias meadii'' is a rare species of milkweed known by the common name Mead's milkweed. It is native to the American Midwest, where it was probably once quite widespread in the tallgrass prairie. Today much of the Midwest has been fragment ...
''.Betz, R. F. (1989)Ecology of Mead's milkweed (''Asclepias meadii'') Torrey.
in Proceedings of the 11th North American Prairie Conference; 1989; University of Nebraska, Lincoln. p 187-191.
References
Molytinae Beetles of North America Beetles described in 1824 {{Molytinae-stub