Records of Heilipus species included in the article: Host plants of the weevil genus Heilipus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Molytini: Hylobiina)

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.