Indian Entiminae
(Broad nosed weevils)
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| Species Name | : | Platymycetes feae Faust (1895) |
| Taxonomic_position | : | Eremninae: Cyphicerini |
| Synonyms | : | Corigetus feae Faust, 1895. Ann. Mus. Genova (2) 14 (34): 201 Platymycterus feae Marshall, 1918. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (9) 1: 246-248. Platymycterus feae Schenkling & Marshall, 1931. Coleopterorum catalogus, pars 114: 11, 35. |
| Diagnosis | : | Rostrum red-brown, as long as broad, running parallel from base to apex; epistome long, not carinate; lateral areas each with a broad carina running straight from scrobe to eye and a squamose sulcus above and below it; mentum with 5-6 setae; Antennae dark-brown, moderately long, funicle with joint 2 longer than 1; Prothorax red-brown, as long as its width at apex, broadest at base, anterior margin sub-truncate, with feeble ocular lobes and fine vibrissae laterally; Elytra reddish-brown, oblong, convex, running parallel from base to behind middle and narrowing towards apex, with apices jointly sinuate and shoulders rectangularly rounded. |
| Host | : | Wild vegetation, Bamboo, Beans, Weeds |
| Distribution | : | Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh: East Siang, Lower Dibang | References | : | Pajni, H.R., 1990. Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Subfamily Eremninae, Tribe Cyphicerini. Fauna of India and adjacent countries. |
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