The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Agriculture Department (DA) found a new species of pest in a shipment of pineapples from Guatemala.

A CBP agriculture specialist inspecting the 50,000-ton imported fruit cargo in Freeport, Texas found a weevil she could not identify in the pineapples and later learned from the DA, where a specimen of the pest was sent for examination, that it was a new weevil species.

The species was similar to the weevil genera Conotrachelus belonging to a tropical genus that is currently not described in the traditional sense, the Smithsonian Institute's Entomology Lab in Washington D.C. said in a statement.

The CBP did not allow the fruits, and the new weevils in it, to enter the U.S. to prevent the local spread of the pest. It recommended instead to treat, destroy or re-export the pineapples.