Species Lixus cardui Olivier, 1807

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• Lixus cardui Olivier, A.G. 1807. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Coléoptères. Paris : Desray Vol. 5 612 pp. [250, pl. 30 fig. 454].
• Curculio pollinosus Germar, E.F. 1817. Reise nach Dalmatien und in das Gebiet von Ragusa. Mit 9 illum. Kupfern und 2 Charten. Leipzig und Altenburg : F. A. Brockhaus xii + 323 pp. [230] [junior homonym; non Fabricius, 1792].
• Lixus pollinosus Germar, E.F. 1819. Versuch einer Eintheilung der Horde der Rüsselkäfer in mehrere Gattungen. Annalen der Wetterauischen Gesellschaft fur die Gesampte Naturkunde 4: 116-139 [134] [junior homonym; junior secondary homonym for species].
• Lixus tigrinus Schoenherr, C.J. 1835. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Paris : Roret Vol. 3(1) pp. 1-505. [76].

Generic Combinations

• Lixus (Lixochelus) cardui (Olivier, 1807).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from west palaearctic region.

Ecological Descriptors

Larva, adult: herbivore (associated flora: Onopordum [ASTERACEAE] Thistle).

General References

Briese, D.T. 1996. Potential impact of the stem-boring weevil Lixus cardui on the growth and reproductive capacity of Onopordum spp. thistles. Biocontrol Science and Technology 6: 251-261

Briese, D.T., Pettit, W. & Walker, A. 2004. Evaluation of the biological control agent, Lixus cardui, on Onopordum thistles: experimental studies on agent demography and impact. Biological Control 31: 165-171

Erbey, M. & Candan, S. 2010. Description of surface morphology in male and female genitals of Lixus cardui Olivier, 1807 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Lixinae): a scanning electron microscope study. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 62(3): 321-329 [Date published XII-2010]

Gültekin, L. & Perrin, H. 2011. Study of a part of the A.G. Olivier Lixini collection (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): lectotype designations, new synonymies and nomenclatural acts. Zootaxa 2943: 45-57 [Date published 7-VII-2011] [56 figs 15-16, 24] (designation of lectotype)

Nikulina, O. & Gültekin, L. 2011. Larval morphology of Lixus cardui Olivier and Lixus filiformis (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): biological control agents for scotch and musk thistles. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 253-257

Swirepik, A., Turner, P. & Briese, D.T. 2008. Evaluation of the biological control agent, Lixus cardui, on Onopordum thistles: establishment and initial field impact. Biological Control 47: 108-114

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