Cleopus pulchellus (Herbst, 1795)
(a figwort weevil)

Interactions where Cleopus pulchellus is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
larva		larva feeds on			Scrophularia	figworts	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia/	Scrophularia	figworts
larva		larva grazes on leaf (underside)			Scrophularia auriculata	Water Figwort, Water Betony	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia auriculata/	Scrophularia auriculata	water figwort, water betony			leaf (underside)		Major
larva		larva grazes on stem			Scrophularia auriculata	Water Figwort, Water Betony	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia auriculata/	Scrophularia auriculata	water figwort, water betony			stem		Major
larva		larva grazes on bud			Scrophularia auriculata	Water Figwort, Water Betony	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia auriculata/	Scrophularia auriculata	water figwort, water betony			bud		Major
larva		larva grazes on flower			Scrophularia auriculata	Water Figwort, Water Betony	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia auriculata/	Scrophularia auriculata	water figwort, water betony			flower		Major
larva		larva grazes on leaf (underside)			Scrophularia nodosa	Common Figwort	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia nodosa/	Scrophularia nodosa	common figwort			leaf (underside)		Major
larva		larva grazes on stem			Scrophularia nodosa	Common Figwort	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia nodosa/	Scrophularia nodosa	common figwort			stem		Major
larva		larva grazes on bud			Scrophularia nodosa	Common Figwort	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia nodosa/	Scrophularia nodosa	common figwort			bud		Major
larva		larva grazes on flower			Scrophularia nodosa	Common Figwort	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia nodosa/	Scrophularia nodosa	common figwort			flower		Major
larva		larva grazes on leaf (underside)			Verbascum	mulleins	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum/	Verbascum	mulleins			leaf (underside)
larva		larva grazes on stem			Verbascum	mulleins	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum/	Verbascum	mulleins			stem
larva		larva grazes on bud			Verbascum	mulleins	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum/	Verbascum	mulleins			bud
larva		larva grazes on flower			Verbascum	mulleins	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations, Bullock, J.A., 1992 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum/	Verbascum	mulleins			flower
larva		larva grazes on leaf (underside)			Verbascum thapsus	Great Mullein	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum thapsus/	Verbascum thapsus	great mullein			leaf (underside)
larva		larva grazes on stem			Verbascum thapsus	Great Mullein	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum thapsus/	Verbascum thapsus	great mullein			stem
larva		larva grazes on bud			Verbascum thapsus	Great Mullein	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum thapsus/	Verbascum thapsus	great mullein			bud
larva		larva grazes on flower			Verbascum thapsus	Great Mullein	Lamiales: Scrophulariaceae	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae, Morris, M.G., 2002	/Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Coleoptera/Curculionidae/Cleopus pulchellus/	Cleopus pulchellus	a figwort weevil				larva	Foodplant / open feeder		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Scrophulariaceae/Verbascum thapsus/	Verbascum thapsus	great mullein			flower

Cleopus pulchellus (a figwort weevil) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

Cleopus pulchellus (a figwort weevil) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

CURCULIONIDAE
(weevils)

CURCULIONOIDEA
(weevils and allied beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

Author & Year	Title	Source
Bullock, J.A., 1992	Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations	11a, 24pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
Morris, M.G., 2002	True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae	Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 5, Part 17b, 149pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Cleopus pulchellus (a figwort weevil)
Subfamily	CIONINAE (figwort and mullein weevils)
Family	CURCULIONIDAE (weevils)
Superfamily	CURCULIONOIDEA (weevils and allied beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Cleopus pulchellus is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Curculionidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cleopus pulchellus (a figwort weevil)

Cleopus pulchellus (a figwort weevil) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CIONINAE
(figwort and mullein weevils)

CURCULIONIDAE
(weevils)

CURCULIONOIDEA
(weevils and allied beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Cleopus pulchellus (a figwort weevil):

CIONINAE
(figwort and mullein weevils)

CURCULIONIDAE
(weevils)

CURCULIONOIDEA
(weevils and allied beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

PTERYGOTA
(bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

Invertebrates
(Invertebrates)

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