Indian Entiminae
(Broad nosed weevils)
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| Species Name | : | Amblyrhhinus poricollis Schonherr (1826) |
| Taxonomic_position | : | Eremninae: Cyphicerini |
| Synonyms | : | Amblyrrhinus poricollis Schonherr, 1826. Cure. Disp. meth.: 184. Amblyrrhinus poricollis Schenkling & Marshall, 1931. Coleopterorum Catalogus, pars 114: 9, 33. |
| Diagnosis | : | Rostrum black, shorter than its basal width, gradually narrowing from base to apex; epistome moderately long, sharply carinate, forming an acute angle behind, not reaching a line between insertion of antennae; Antennae black, short, inserted behind middle of rostrum ; scape strongly curved in basal half, sub-cylindrical, gradually clavate, densely covered with fawn scales and pale recumbent setae; funicle with joint 1 longer than 2; Prothorax black, transversely and longitudinally convex; Elytra with numerous recumbent and brownish setae on each interval, with ground color black, covered with brownish scales, having a patch of pale scales on top of declivity of each elytron. |
| Host | : | Dalbergia sissoo, Prosopis and Sesbania |
| Distribution | : | Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan | References | : | Pajni, H.R., 1990. Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Subfamily Eremninae, Tribe Cyphicerini. Fauna of India and adjacent countries. |
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