Curculio glandium Marsham, 1802
acorn weevil
on oak
Quercus robur, Hungary, Kimle, 13.viii.2019 © László Érsek female, preparing for oviposition fresh oviposition trace old oviposition trace egg in opened acorn opened acorn with larva larva frontal mandibles Quercus robur, Dronten, IJslander, 20.ix.2019 © Arnold Grosscurt: two acorns infested by Curculio spec. Quercus robur, Zwolle.4.ix.2019 © Arnold Grosscurt: larva of Curculio spec. Larvae in the acorns. After the summer they are fully fed and crawl into the soil, but wait up to three years before they pupate. Beetles feed on the leaves Fagaceae, monophagous Quercus cerris, faginea, ilex, petraea, pubescens, pyrenaica, robur, rotundifolia, suber. ? Also Corylus avellana (Betulaceae). polyphagous Reynoutria japonica. Andrade & Stüben (2020a), Avgın & Colonnelli (2011a), Colonnelli, Osella & Cornacchia (2011a), Compte (1981a), Delbol (2013a), Dieckmann (1988a), Dieckmann & Herger (1985a), Fernández-Carrillo & Fernández-Carrillo (2010a), Knutelski & Surowiak (2011a), Meijer, Smit, Beukeboom & Schilthuizen (2012a), le Monnier (2002a), Rheinheimer & Hassler (2010a), Ugarte San Vicente (2005a), Yunakov, Nazarenko, Filimonov & Volovnik (2018a).parasite
host plants, larvae
host plants, beetles
distribution within Europe
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