Biology:Ambrosiodmus asperatus
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Short description: Species of beetle
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| Species: | A. asperatus
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| Ambrosiodmus asperatus (Blandford, 1895)
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Ambrosiodmus asperatus, commonly known as ambrosia beetle,[1] is a species of weevil found in China, India, Nepal, Indonesia: Java, Sumatra, Japan: Ryukyu Islands, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Brunei. The species also introduced to Australia.[2]
Description
This very small species has a body length is about 2.5 to 2.8 mm.[3] The species is characterized by having declivital interstriae 2 bearing a row of 3 to 5 denticles. The declivital interstriae 1 are distinctly impressed.[4][5]
Biology
It is a polyphagous beetle found abundantly during the rainy season. In southern Thailand, in inhabited in durian-based agricultural lands and nearby forests.[6]
References
- ↑ "ambrosia beetle: Ambrosiodmus asperatus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)". https://www.barkbeetles.org/browse/subject.cfm?SUB=60495.
- ↑ "HISL - PEET Scolytinae". http://xyleborini.speciesfile.org/public/site/scolytinae/home/show_taxon/1777.
- ↑ "Ambrosiodmus". http://www.ambrosiasymbiosis.org/PNG_Xyleborini/data/Ambrosiodmus_main.html.
- ↑ "SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID | Fact sheet". http://idtools.org/id/wbb/sea-ambrosia/factsheet.php?name=16185.
- ↑ Wood, Stephen L. (1989). "Nomenclatural Changes and New Species of Scolytidae (Coleoptera), Part IV". The Great Basin Naturalist 49 (2): 167–185. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.22642. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41712501. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
- ↑ "Ambrosiodmus asperatus (Blandford)" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/183732082.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q108117677 entry
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