Myllocerus discolor Boheman 1834

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong, 2025, Checklist of Sri Lankan weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Curculionidae; excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae): Based on literature data, Zootaxa 5719 (2), pp. 151-206 : 180-181

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7F7EB5B-AF3C-4BE9-9839-F75342943E2D
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scientific name	Myllocerus discolor Boheman 1834
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Myllocerus discolor Boheman 1834 View in CoL

Myllocerus discolor Boheman 1834: 428 . [ Type locality: Bengal; Type in the Stockholm Museum] Myllocerus variegatus Boheman 1843: 9 . [ Type locality: Bengal; Type in the Stockholm Museum]

Myllocerus uniformis Marshall 1916: 349 View in CoL . [ Type locality: India —Mundali, Jaunsar; Type in the British Museum] Myllocerus canescens Marshall 1916: 350 View in CoL . [ Type locality: Ceylon —Halupahani; Type in the British Museum]

Sri Lankan records. Heller (1901: 338 —Nalanda); Marshall (1916: 349, 350—Eppewala, Nalanda, Halupahani, Batticaloa); Voss (1957: 102 —Haragama, Kantalai, Uva); Ramamurthy & Ghai (1988: 459).

Distribution. Sri Lanka , India, Iran, Pakistan.

Biological notes. Wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, cotton, sugarcane, jute, moth bean, sweet potato, mango, fig, ber, banana, litchi, bael, lemon, guava, loquat, mulberry, okra, pumpkin, moringa, licerne, teak, daincha, sesbania, Eriobotrys japonica , Acacia , Dalbergia sisoo ; attracted to light ( Ramamurthy & Ghai 1988).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Curculionidae
Genus	Myllocerus