Indian Entiminae
(Broad nosed weevils)
| Common Name: | : | Oil Palm Pollinating Weevil, African oil palm weevil |
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| Species Name | : | Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust (1898) |
| Taxonomic_position | : | Curculioninae: Derelomini: Derelomina |
| Synonyms | : | Derelomus kamerunicus Faust, 1898: 225 |
| Diagnosis | : | Dull dark brown, elytra with large yellow or reddish-brown spot on either side of the apex and on all or part of the base. Elytra in males alutaceous, dull, moderately curved from shoulder to apex; base of interstria 4 usually raised to a yellow tumour or swelling bare of erect hairs; apical 2/3 of sutural interstria raised, bearing long erect setae but in female costate, with costa flat. |
| Host | : | Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacquin) |
| Distribution | : | Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam, Kerala, Gujarat, Goa, TamilNadu, Maharashtra, Tripura, West Bengal, and some areas of Andaman. | References | : | Haran, J.M., Beaudoin-Ollivier, L., Benoit, L. and Kuschel, G., 2020. Revision of the palm-pollinating weevil genus Elaeidobius Kuschel, 1952 (Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Derelomini) with descriptions of two new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 684: 1-32. |
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