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.