Biology:Diuncus haberkorni

Short description: Species of beetle

Diuncus haberkorni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Phytophaga
Superfamily:	Curculionoidea
Family:	Curculionidae
Genus:	Diuncus
Species:	D. haberkorni
Binomial name
Diuncus haberkorni (Eggers, 1920)
Synonyms
Xyleborus haberkorni Eggers, 1920 Orthosinus sculpticollis Motschulsky, 1863 Diuncus haberkorni (Eggers): Hulcr and Cognato, 2009 Xyleborus approximatus Schedl, 1951 Xyleborus taichuensis Schedl, 1952 Xyleborus potens Schedl, 1964

Diuncus haberkorni, is a species of weevil found in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Java, Japan, Malaysia, New Guinea, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is also imported to African countried such as South Africa, and Tanzania.

Description

Body length is about 1.9 to 2.8 mm. The elytral summit is armed by two pairs of large denticles. Pronotum as long as wide where the basal half is punctate. Elytral declivity weakly bisulcate. Elytral interstriae 1, 3 to 6 are flat to weakly convex. This gives the finely sculptured appearance for the declivity.

A polyphagous species, it is found from many host plants.

Host plants

• Artocarpus dadah
• Coffea liberica
• Dalbergia latifolia
• Gluta curtisii
• Eugenia jambolana
• Falcataria moluccana
• Mangifera indica
• Neolitsea konishii
• Parkia speciosa
• Piper
• Salix tetrasperma
• Shorea maxwelliana
• Shorea ovata
• Shorea robusta
• Swietenia mahagoni
• Tectona grandis
• Terminalia myriocarpa
• Theobroma cacao
• Toona sinensis
• Tristania whiteana
• Turpinia pomifera
• Vitex pubescens
• Zelkova serrata

References

Wikidata ☰ Q108480349 entry