Myllocerus dentifer (Fabricius 1792)

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7F7EB5B-AF3C-4BE9-9839-F75342943E2D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17891823

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA0627-FFC8-AB33-FF48-F99C8D279570

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Plazi

scientific name

Myllocerus dentifer (Fabricius 1792)
status

 

Myllocerus dentifer (Fabricius 1792) View in CoL

Curculio dentifer Fabricius 1792: 488 View in CoL . [ Type locality: E. India; Type in the Copenhagen University Museum]

Sri Lankan records. Marshall (1916: 347 —Galle, Colombo); Voss (1957: 102 —Haragama, Kantalai, Uva); Ramamurthy & Ghai (1988: 458).

Distribution. Sri Lanka , Afghanistan, India.

Biological notes. Maize, pearl millet, sorghum, Setaria italica, cotton, blackgram, soybean, cowpea, berseem, guar, okra, ribbed gourd, almond, sannhemp, hollyhock, rose; attracted to light ( Ramamurthy & Ghai 1988).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Myllocerus

Loc

Myllocerus dentifer (Fabricius 1792)

Wijesinghe, Dilshara D. & Hong, Ki-Jeong 2025
2025
Loc

Sri

Ramamurthy, V. V. & Ghai, S. 1988: 458
Voss, E. 1957: 102
Marshall, G. A. K. 1916: 347
1916
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