Indian Entiminae
(Broad nosed weevils)
| Common Name: | : | Banana rhizome weevil, Banana weevil borer, banana root weevil, banana root borer, banana borer, plantain weevil, corm weevil and banana beetle |
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| Species Name | : | Cosmopolitus sordidus Germar (1824) |
| Taxonomic_position | : | Dryophthorinae: Rhynchophorini: Sphenophorina |
| Synonyms | : | Calandra sordida Germar, 299; Gyllenhal in Schoenherr, 1838: 925 (Sphenophorus); Chevrolat, 289 |
| Diagnosis | : | Body is Oval shaped with shiny black to ferrugineus colour; Head punctate as broad as long, dorsum partially covered with eyes; Rostrum basally broad, dilated upto antennal insertion, rounded transversely as long as head and pronotum combined, as long as broad basally. Antennae inserted from base of rostrum with scape clavate, shiny, impunctate, as long as funicle and club combined, funicle with six antennomeres; Elytra punctatostriate; Tibia moderately straight, grooved beneath, provided with a row of setae on each side of groove; uncinate, uncus arising from middle of tibial apex, apically curved downwards, punctures aligned into pubescent striae; Venter shiny black, sternites uniformly punctate. |
| Host | : | Banana, plantain (Musa spp.) and ensete (Ensete spp.). |
| Distribution | : | Andaman Islands, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. | References | : | Singh, A.K., Jaiswal, P. and Patley, S., 2018. Taxonomic Redescription of the Weevils Infesting Banana (Musa sp.) in India. Int. J. Pure App. Biosci, 6(1), pp.806-819. |
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