Biology:Cnestus gravidus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Cnestus |
| Species: | C. gravidus
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| Cnestus gravidus (Blanford, 1898)
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Cnestus gravidus is a species of weevil found in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and China.[1][2]
Description
Average body length is about 5.0 to 5.5 mm. Body with a bicolored pronotum where the apical half is black and basal half is orange. Procoxae is subcontiguous. Antennae with four funicle segments and obliquely truncate club. The first antennal segment forms a circular costa. Coarse median pair of asperities are found on the anterior margin of the pronotum. Protibiae consists with 7 socketed teeth.[3] There is a mesonotal mycangial tuft found on the pronotal base. Elytral disc is short and elytral declivity is obliquely truncate. Elytral interstriae is granulate with a median row of long erect hairs.[1][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "SE Asian Ambrosia Beetle ID: Fact sheet". http://idtools.org/id/wbb/sea-ambrosia/factsheet.php?name=16351.
- ↑ Beaver, R. A.; Sittichaya, W.; Liu, L-Y. (2014-10-21). "A Synopsis of the Scolytine Ambrosia Beetles of Thailand (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). Cnestus gravidus Blandford". Zootaxa 3875: 1–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3875.1.1. PMID 25544343. https://zenodo.org/record/5130855. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
- ↑ Dole, Stephanie A.; Cognato, Anthony I. (2010). "Phylogenetic revision of Xylosandrus Reitter (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborina)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 4 61 (10): 451–545. http://www.monarthrum.info/pdf_assets/dole_cognato_2010_CAS_61_451.pdf. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ↑ Smith, Sarah M.; Beaver, Roger A.; Cognato, Anthony I. (2020-03-11). "A monograph of the Xyleborini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae) of the Indochinese Peninsula (except Malaysia) and China" (in en). ZooKeys (983): 1–442. doi:10.3897/zookeys.983.52630. PMID 33244289. PMC 7655787. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/52630/. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
Wikidata ☰ Q108471636 entry
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