Rhynchophorus ferrugineus

Taxonomic position
▼ Rhynchophorus (genus) ▼ Dryophthoridae ▼ Curculionoidea ▼ Coleoptera ▼ Insect pests (plants/storage) ► Pests-diseases-weeds

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Rhynchophorus ferrugineus female (click on image to enlarge it)
Author: Luigi Barraco
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Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790) (red palm weevil)
attacks palms in various regions. The palms are often killed during an attack. The species is native to south-east Asia and has spread in the 1980s to the Near East, where it became a major pest of date palms. More recently it has invaded North Africa and Europe and since 2009 has been reported from the Caribbean.

For details see the respective page in Wikipedia.

Vernacular names
• English:	red palm weevil
• Español:	picudo rojo de las palmeras curculiónido ferruginoso de las palmeras

The literature database currently contains 224 publications for Rhynchophorus ferrugineus. (See box above/on left.)

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  Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis) in Italy killed by the weevil