Pea Leaf Weevil
Sitona lineatus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

• Europe: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Channel Islands, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslavia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal (Azores & Madeira), Romania, Russian Federation, Spain (Canary Islands), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom
• Asia: Cyprus, Iran, Israel, Syria and Turkey
• Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Uganda
• Western Hemisphere: Bermuda, Canada (British Columbia) and USA (California, Idaho, Oregon, Virginia & Washington)
• Oceania: New Zealand (confined)

• Primary hosts: Medicago sativa (lucerne), Pisum sativum (pea), Vicia faba (broad bean), Medicago lupulina (black medic), Melilotus alba, Melilotus officialis (Field melilot) and Phaseolus vulgaris (kidney bean).
• Secondary hosts: Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot), Arachis hypogaea (groundnut), Cicer arietinum (chickpea), Lupinus albus, Lupinus luteus (yellow lupin), Onobrychis viciifolia (sainfoin), Trifolium pratense (purple clover), Trifolium repens (white clover), Vicia sativa (common vetch), Vicia villosa, Vicia spp., Lotus corniculatus (bird's-foot trefoil), Lathyrus spp., Lotus uliginosus (greater lotus), Lupinus (lupins), Trifolium (clovers), Trifolium dubium (yellow suckling clover), Trifolium fragiferum (strawberry clover), Trifolium hybridum (Alsike clover), Trifolium incarnatum (Crimson clover) and Lotus (trefoils).
• Wild hosts: Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) and Sarothamnus spp.

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• Dr Andras Bozsik, Associate Professor, Department of Crop Protection, University of Debrecen, Hungary

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