Aizobius sedi (Germar, 1818)

on Hylotelephium, Sedum, Sempervivum

mine

The weevil generally lives as a stem borer, but also as a leaf miner. It then makes a narrow, hardly widening, weakly branched, brown full depth corridor that ends upon the midrib. Sometimes a small blotch is formed there, or the larva works through the midrib towards the stem. The larva pupates in a globular cocoon that either lies in the stem or in the small blotch on the midrib (Hering, 1957a; Scherf, 1964a).

host plants

Crassulaceae, oligophagous

Hylotelephium maximum & subsp. ruprechtii, telephium; Sedum acre, album, rupestre, sexangulare; Sempervivum arachhnoideum.

phenology

Larvae in June-July (Scherf, 1964a).

BENELUX

BE recorded (Curculionidae.be, 2010)

NE recorded (Heijerman, 1993a)

LUX not recorded (Fauna Europaea, 2007)

distribution within Europe

From the UK to Ukraine and from Norway to Spain and Italy (Fauna Europaea, 2007).

larva

Scherf (1964a).

synonyms

Apion, Perapion, sedi; Perapion maassi (Flach, 1908).

references

Beiger (1960a), Buhr (1965a), Dauphin & Aniotsbehere (1997a), Delbol (2013a), Dieckmann (1977a), Ehret (1990a), Heijerman (1993a), Hering (1931a, 1957a), Podlussány (1986a), Redfern & Shirley (2011a), Reibnitz (2012a), Rheinheimer & Hassler (2010a), Robbins (1991a), Scherf (1964a), Sønderup (1949a), Tomasi (2014a), Vorst (2010a), Yunakov, Nazarenko, Filimonov & Volovnik (2018a).