Indian Entiminae
(Broad nosed weevils)
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| Species Name | : | Indomias frater (Marshall, 1916) |
| Taxonomic_position | : | Entiminae: Tanymecini |
| Synonyms | : | Sympiezomias frater Marshall, 1916 |
| Diagnosis | : | Colour black, covered with dense, uniform, metallic green or bluish green vestiture, inflexed margins of prothorax and elytra with yellow powdery patches. Eyes entirely lateral, broadly oval, moderately convex and prominent. Rostrum plain dorsally, tranverse, 1.2x as broad as long, breadth at anterior margin only 0.64x as of posterior margin; median furrow very short, broad and pushed towards anterior margin. Antennae dark brown; scape abruptly clavate. Prothorax as long as broad. Elytra with basal margin strongly raised, its external angle perpendicular or acute, humeral fold prominent and projecting. |
| Host | : | Coffee |
| Distribution | : | Karnataka (Coorg), Tamil Nadu (Nilgiri Hills, Salem). | References | : | Ramamurthy, V.V. and Ayri, S., 2010. Revision of the genus Indomias Marshall (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae, Tanymecini) from India. Zootaxa, 2357(1), pp.1-49. |
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