Merus ( Indomecyslobus ) reticulatus (Fabricius 1775)

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 : 193

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Merus ( Indomecyslobus ) reticulatus (Fabricius 1775)
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Merus ( Indomecyslobus) reticulatus (Fabricius 1775)

Lixus reticulatus Fabricius 1775: 138 View in CoL . [Type locality: India —Tranquebar; Holotype deposited in Zoologische Museum, Copenhagen]

Alcides pavidus Faust 1894: 251 View in CoL , 259. [Type locality: Myanmar — Palon ; Lectotype deposited in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden]

Merus obfuscatus : [EA] Andrew & Ramamurthy 2010: 276

Sri Lankan records. Haaf (1960: 665 —Matale); Haaf (1961b: 435); Haaf (1964: 158).

Distribution. Sri Lanka , India, Myanmar.

Biological notes. Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn (= Eriodendron anfractuosum ) [ Malvaceae ] ( Haaf 1960).

Subgenus Ornatalcides Heller 1918

Ornatalcides Heller 1918 : 214. [ Type species: Alcides decorates Reolofs 1893 ]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

Genus

Merus

Loc

Merus ( Indomecyslobus ) reticulatus (Fabricius 1775)

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

Merus obfuscatus

Andrew, J. P. & Ramamurthy, V. V. 2010: 276
2010
Loc

Sri

Haaf, E. 1961: 435
Haaf, E. 1960: 665
1960
Loc

Alcides pavidus

Faust, J. 1894: 251
1894
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