Orchestes alni is a species of weevil native to Europe.[2][3][4] Reports of this species in North America were misidentifications of the closely-related species, Orchestes steppensis.[5]

Orchestes alni
Orchestes alni, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Tribe: Rhamphini
Subtribe: Rhamphina
Genus: Orchestes
Species:
O. alni
Binomial name
Orchestes alni
( Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Orchestes alni Shothole symptoms produced by adult feeding on Siberian elm

References

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  1. ^ Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm
  2. ^ Fauna Europaea
  3. ^ Morris, M.G. (2012) True Weevils. (Coleoptera: Curculioninae, Baridinae, Oroitidinae). Part III. Royal Entomological Society of London Handbook 5 (17d).
  4. ^ Hoffmann, A. (1950, 1954, 1958) Coléoptères curculionides. Parties I, II, III. Paris: Éditions Faune de France. Bibliothèque virtuelle numérique pdfs
  5. ^ Korotyaev B.A. (2016) New data on the changes in the abundance and distribution of several species of beetles (Coleoptera) in European Russia and the Caucasus. Ent. Review 96: 620–630.