Wheat weevil

species of insect
Taxon taxon Q217350
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Summary

Wheat weevil is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.78% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,664 views/month, #1,517 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • Parent taxon: Sitophilus[4]
  • Taxon name: Sitophilus granarius[5]
  • Commons category: Sitophilus granarius[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sitophilus granarius[7]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[9]
  • Original combination: Curculio granarius[10]
  • Short name: S. granarius[11]
  • Taxon common name: Graanklander[12], jyväkärsäkäs[13], kornsnutebille[14], wheat weevil[15], grain weevil[16], granary weevil[17], 谷象[18], 谷米象甲[19]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[20]

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Identifiers

Wheat weevil's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 231086[21]. Wheat weevil's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7046[22]. Wheat weevil's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1170174[23]. Wheat weevil's ITIS TSN is recorded as 188076[24].

Why It Matters

Wheat weevil has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [22] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [24] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [23] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . laji.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. Retrieved . artsdatabanken.no. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . Revision of the systematic status and update of Latin-English-Chinese catalogue of storage beetles. wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . Revision of the systematic status and update of Latin-English-Chinese catalogue of storage beetles. wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . Revision of the systematic status and update of Latin-English-Chinese catalogue of storage beetles. wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . Revision of the systematic status and update of Latin-English-Chinese catalogue of storage beetles. wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . Revision of the systematic status and update of Latin-English-Chinese catalogue of storage beetles. wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Insects (insecta) of the world id → 856929
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  2. 10w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C2849
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  3. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → species
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    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
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