DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnwbn
title: Records of Heilipus species included in the article: Host plants of the weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)

description: Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini:
 Hylobiina) is a largely understudied tropical lineage of weevils with 90
 described species distributed from the southern United States to northern
 Argentina. Several of its species cause damage to avocado (Persea
 americana Mill.; Lauraceae Juss.) crops in the Americas. Aside from the
 economically important species, information regarding the host plants of
 Heilipus is scarce. This dataset contains information about the host
 plants of larval stages of Heilipus, as detailed in the paper “Host plants
 of the weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae:
 Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)", published in Contributions to
 Entomology journal. The dataset was built based on a literature review and
 the examination of label data associated with entomological material
 deposited in museums and scientific collections. Data are presented in an
 Excel file with two sheets. The first one contains occurrence records from
 85 Heilipus specimens housed in three natural history collections (CEAH,
 MEFLG, and USNM) and supports host plant interactions not previously
 documented in the literature. The second sheet comprises information
 extracted from bibliographic resources, including agricultural reports,
 books, bulletins, catalogues, checklists, dissertations, and scientific
 papers on the genus Heilipus. According to this dataset and the published
 paper, the larval stages of 24 Heilipus species are associated with 38
 plant species belonging to 13 genera: 33 species (12 genera) from the
 family Lauraceae, and five species (one genus) from the family Annonaceae
 Juss.
description: A total of 931 specimens of the genus <em>Heilipus
 </em>were examined in 20 natural history collections in Brazil (20
 specimens), Colombia (249), Mexico (142), United Kingdom (118), and
 United States (402). Only 40% of the examined specimens had information on
 their habits and host plants. Furthermore, only 7% of these 40%
 corresponded to plants other than avocado. Consequently, occurrence data
 from only 85 specimens are presented, providing information on 12 host
 plant associations not previously reported in the literature. These 85
 specimens belong to 13 locality records for
 10 <em>Heilipus</em> species, and are deposited at the Coleção
 Entomológica Adolph Hempel, Instituto Biológico, São Paulo, Brazil (CEAH),
 Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego, Universidad Nacional Sede
 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia (MEFLG), and Smithsonian National Museum of
 Natural History, Department of Entomology, Washington, D.C., United States
 of America (USNM).
description: # Records of Heilipus species included in the article: Host plants of the
 weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae:
 Molytini: Hylobiina)"
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnwbn](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnwbn) ## Description of the data and file structure This file includes two sheets with data. **Sheet 1** corresponds to transcribed data labels on specimens housed in biological collections. **Sheet 2** contains information extracted from bibliographic resources (see methods and associated paper). ### Files and variables #### File: Supplementary\_Material\_PJS\_2\_129094.xlsx **Description:** Occurrence data of 85 *Heilipus* specimens deposited in natural history collections are organized according to 14 fields: country, stateProvince, municipality, locality, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, recordedBy, eventDate, scientificName, individualCount, associatedTaxa, basisOfRecord, institutionCode, and catalogNumber. These are among the many fields included in a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standard for packaging and publishing biodiversity data. Definitions of these fields can be consulted in the most recent [Darwin Core List of Terms](https://dwc.tdwg.org/list/). The field "institutionCode" refers to the acronyms of the collections in which the specimens are deposited. The three acronyms listed in the first sheet of the Excel file correspond to the following institutions: * **CEAH:** Coleção Entomológica Adolph Hempel, Instituto Biológico, São Paulo, Brazil. * **MEFLG:** Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego, Universidad Nacional Sede Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. * **USNM:** Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, Washington, D.C., United States of America. Regarding the second sheet of the Excel file, information extracted from bibliographic resources is organized into 9 fields: country, stateProvince, municipality, locality, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, scientificName, associatedTaxa, and bibliographicCitation. The last field contains the bibliographic citation of the document from which the data were extracted. Links to almost all these documents can be consulted in the paper associated with this dataset. Data correspond to a total of 90 records. Of these, 84 records document associations between 21 *Heilipus* species and 26 plant species. Six additional records pertain to associations between six plant species and undetermined *Heilipus* species. \* In both sheets, cells with the value "null" indicate data that is not available on the labels associated with specimens deposited in natural history collections, nor in the bibliographic references used. ### **Code/software** The dataset is provided as an Excel (.XLSX) spreadsheet. It is readable and editable using Microsoft Excel or any program that supports .XLSX files.  ### **Access information** #### **Other publicly accessible locations of the data:** Data available in the article “Host plants of the weevil genus *Heilipus* Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)”, published in Contributions to Entomology Journal. #### **Data was derived from the following sources:** Collection data on labels of specimens of the genus *Heilipus* examined in entomological museums and collections, as well as documents published on this group of weevils, including agricultural reports, books, bulletins, catalogues, checklists, dissertations, and scientific papers.