Biology:Xylosandrus mancus

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Short description: Species of beetle


Xyleborus mancus
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Curculionoidea
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X. mancus
Binomial name
Xylosandrus mancus
(Blanford, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Xyleborus abruptus Xyleborus mancus
  • Blanford, 1898 (Blanford): Wood, 1980
  • Sampson, 1914 Xyleborus mancus formosanus
  • Xylosandrus mancus Eggers, 1930
  • Apoxyleborus mancus (Blanford): Wood, 1984

Xylosandrus mancus, is a species of weevil found in Afrotropical and Oriental regions.[1][2]

Distribution

It is native to Madagascar, Mauritania, Seychelles, Tanzania, China, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysian Peninsula, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.[3][4]

Description

Body length of the female ranges from 2.9 to 3.3 mm. Body yellowish brown to brown. Elytra dark brown at apex and declivity. Antennae and legs are yellowish brown. Antennea with 5 funicular segments and obliquely truncate club. Pronotal vestiture is semi-appressed and with hairy setae. Pronotal base covered with a dense patch of short erect setae that resemble a pronotal-mesonotal mycangium. Pronotal disc is moderately punctate. Pronotum consists with lateral costa and not carinate. Protibiae with 5 socketed teeth, whereas mesotibiae with 11 and metatibiae with 12 socketed teeth. In elytra, discal striae and interstriae multiseriate are punctate. Declivital elytral face is steep and abruptly separated from disc. Margin of the elytral declivity with a carina or sometimes forms a rim of granules that extends beyond the seventh interstriae by making a circumdeclivital ring.[3]

A polyphagous species, it is found in many plants.[3]

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References

Wikidata ☰ Q108471662 entry