Biology:Cratopus sinhalensis
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Short description: Species of beetle
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| Superfamily: | Curculionoidea
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| Genus: | Cratopus
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| Species: | C. sinhalensis
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| Cratopus sinhalensis Marshall, 1916
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Cratopus sinhalensis, is a species of weevil found in Sri Lanka.[1]
Description
This species has a body length is about 9 mm. Body black, evenly and thinly clothed with short pale hair-like scales with a coppery tinge. Head coarsely punctate. Eyes are moderately convex. Rostrum long and broad. Antennae brown. Prothorax with strongly rounded sides, and truncate and distinctly marginate base. Scutellurn with sparse hair-like scales. Elytra broadly ovate in female with very oblique shoulders. Legs black, and tarsi piceous. Femora smooth, coriaceous and tibiae rugosely punctate.[2]
References
Wikidata ☰ Q108336483 entry
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