Brachycerus cinereus OLIVIER, 1807

Germann, Christoph, Müller, Gerd, Müller, Ursula & Schön, Karel, 2015, An annotated checklist of the weevil fauna of Samos Island with new records for Greece (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea), Contributions to Natural History 27, pp. 1-26 : 6

Brachycerus cinereus OLIVIER, 1807

One specimen of B. cinereus was found feeding on the endemic Galanthus elwesii on the Oros Ambelos ( Fig. 2 ), a genus which was not yet documented as a feeding plant for any Brachycerus .

More than 40 species of Brachycerus are known from the Palaearctic realm, most of them in the Mediterranean region (Friedman & Sagiv 2010). The host plants and feeding plants of Brachycerus are Amaryllidaceae , Araceae , Liliaceae and interestingly also Orchidaceae ( Germann 2003, 2009, Friedman & Sagiv 2010).

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Fig. 2. Brachycerus cinereus OLIVIER, 1807 in the Oros Ambelos feeding on leaves of Galanthus elwesii. Photo: C. Germann.