Conotrachelus elegans
Species of beetle
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Conotrachelus elegans, the pecan gall curculio, is a true weevil species in the genus Conotrachelus. It is found in North America where it feeds on galls of the hickory leaf stem gall phylloxera (Phylloxera caryaecaulis), found also on pecan.
| Pecan gall curculio | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Conotrachelus |
| Species: | C. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Conotrachelus elegans (Say, 1831) Schoenherr, 1837[1] | |