Sluggish weevil

Cleonus piger
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Subfamily: Lixinae
Genus: Cleonus
Species: C. piger
Binomial name
Cleonus piger
(Scopoli, 1763)

The sluggish weevil is a weevil species recorded in Britain and native to Eurasia. It was introduced into North America to help control creeping thistle.[1]

It has various taxonomic synonyms: Cleonus pigra, Cleonus piger, Cleonis pigra[1]

It is identified by double V-pattern elytra and a rostrum with three sulci.[1]

close-up face

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