Cnestus gravidus
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Cnestus gravidus (Blanford, 1898)
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Cnestus gravidus, is a species of weevil found in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China.[1][2]
Description[]
Average body length is about 5.0 to 5.5 mm. Body with a bicolored pronotum where the apical half is black and basal half is orange. Procoxae is subcontiguous. Antennae with four funical segments and obliquely truncate club. The first antennal segment forms a circular costa. Coarse median pair of asperities are found on the anterior margin of the pronotum. Protibiae consists with 7 socketed teeth.[3] There is a mesonotal mycangial tuft found on the pronotal base. Elytral disc is short and elytral declivity is obliquely truncate. Elytral interstriae is granulate with a median row of long erect hairs.[1][4]
References[]
- ^ a b "SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID: Fact sheet". idtools.org. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
- ^ Beaver, R. A.; Sittichaya, W.; Liu, L-Y. (2014-10-21). "Cnestus gravidus Blandford". doi:10.5281/zenodo.5130855. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
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(help) - ^ "Phylogenetic revision of Xylosandrus Reitter (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborina)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Volume: 61 :451-545. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
- ^ Smith, Sarah M.; Beaver, Roger A.; Cognato, Anthony I. (2020-03-11). "A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China". ZooKeys (983): 1–442. doi:10.3897/zookeys.983.52630. PMC 7655787. PMID 33244289. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
Categories:
- Curculionidae
- Insects of Sri Lanka
- Beetles described in 1940
- Curculionidae stubs