# Brown leaf weevil (*Phyllobius oblongus*)

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Data as of: 2026-11-14

The brown leaf weevil (Phyllobius oblongus) is a species in the family Curculionidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 6 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 37 countries, including Albania, Austria and Azerbaijan.

## Quick facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Weight | Not recorded |
| Length | 3 mm – 6 mm |
| Lifespan | Not recorded |
| Diet | Herbivore |
| Main food | Not recorded |
| Habitat | forest, human_modified |
| Young per litter or clutch | Not recorded |
| Generations a year | One |
| Conservation status | Not recorded |
| Countries on record | 37 countries |

## Recorded prey and predators

 Recorded predators: Little brown bat (*Myotis lucifugus*), Coelotes terrestris (*Coelotes terrestris*), Geophilus electricus (*Geophilus electricus*), Geophilus insculptus (*Geophilus insculptus*), Yellow leaf-litter crab spider (*Ozyptila trux*). Each pair is recorded by at least two datasets compiled by Global Biotic Interactions (https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/, CC0 1.0).

## Introduced range

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists it as introduced in 1 country. Introduced: United States. Source: https://griis.org/ (CC BY 4.0).

## Classification

- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Coleoptera
- family: Curculionidae
- genus: Phyllobius
- species: *Phyllobius oblongus* (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms: *Curculio floricola*, *Curculio fuscus*, *Curculio mali*, *Curculio oblongus*, *Curculio pruni*, *Curculio querneus*, *Curculio rufescens*, *Phyllobius aceris*, *Phyllobius aceris*, *Phyllobius biformis*, *Phyllobius mandibularis*, *Phyllobius scutarensis*

## Countries on record

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom

## Common questions

### How big is the brown leaf weevil?

An adult brown leaf weevil measures 3 mm – 6 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

### Where does the brown leaf weevil live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the brown leaf weevil for 37 countries, including Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Belgium. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

### Is the brown leaf weevil an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the brown leaf weevil as introduced in 1 country: United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

### What kind of animal is the brown leaf weevil?

The brown leaf weevil (Phyllobius oblongus) belongs to the family Curculionidae in the order Coleoptera.

### What eats the brown leaf weevil?

Animals recorded preying on the brown leaf weevil include little brown bat, coelotes terrestris, geophilus electricus and geophilus insculptus. The records are compiled by Global Biotic Interactions from published studies; each pair is reported by at least two datasets.

## Sources

- [Catalogue of Life eXtended Release](https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/316691), CC BY 4.0, 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
- [Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI): interpreted data products](https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/), CC0 1.0, 0.11. Poelen, J.H., Simons, J.D. & Mungall, C.J. (2014) Global Biotic Interactions: an open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics 24: 148–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.005. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22691479, with each record's original reference.
- [Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS)](https://griis.org/), CC BY 4.0, 2026-11-13. Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
- [TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844), CC BY 4.0, 2.0. Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844

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