Indian Entiminae

(Broad nosed weevils)

Ghujhia Weevil or Godela

Tanymecus indicus Faust (1894)

Brachyderinae: Tanymecini: Tanymecina

Antenna with scape not exceeding the posterior margin of the eye and with first joint of funicle longer than second; eyes longer, less convex and almost as long as the rostrum; scrobes broader; Head and rostrum with vestiture recumbent and rostrum not shorter than its breadth at base and with the central carina very distinct; general vestiture brown or grey; elytra of male without a tufted apical process; female with the anal segment broader than long and not compressed at apex. 

Wheat, maize, sorghum, barley, rice, gram, black gram, sesamum, safflower, groundnut, mustard, lentil, litchi, chillies, potato, brinjal, cucurbits, cabbage, cauliflower, raddish, spinach, okra, cowpea, tomato, sugarcane, tobacco, cotton, jute, sunhemp, poppy, indigo, berseem, lucerne, weeds and grasses; attracted to light.

Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, New Delhi, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal.

• Marshall, G.A.K. 1916. Coleoptera. Rhynchophora: Curculionidae. In: Shiply, A.E. (Ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis, London, 367 pp.
• Supare, N.R., Ghai, S. and Ramamurthy, V.V. 1990. A revision of Tanymecus from India and adjacent countries (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Oriental Insects, 24(1), pp.1-126.