Trichobaris mucorea, the tobacco stalk borer, is a species of flower weevil in the family Curculionidae.[1][2][3] It is found in North America.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Trichobaris |
| Species: | T. mucorea
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| Trichobaris mucorea (LeConte, 1858)
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This species is associated with the wild tobacco plant Nicotiana attenuata, spending most of its life cycle from egg to adult stage hidden inside the stem, where it feeds on the pith.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Trichobaris mucorea Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ a b "Trichobaris mucorea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ "Trichobaris mucorea Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
- ^ Strigolactones increase tolerance to weevils in tobacco plants. Newsroom, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 24 August 2020.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; M. C. Thomas; P. E. Skelley; J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Jansen MA, Franz NM (2015). "Phylogenetic revision of Minyomerus Horn, 1876 sec. Jansen & Franz, 2015 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) using taxonomic concept annotations and alignments". ZooKeys (528): 1–133. doi:10.3897/zookeys.528.6001. PMC 4668883. PMID 26692791.
External links
edit- "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". Retrieved 2018-02-06.