Bagous latepunctatus Pic 1904

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 : 153

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5719.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17891607
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA0627-FFD7-AB2C-FF48-FD3D89D1962C
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scientific name	Bagous latepunctatus Pic 1904
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Bagous latepunctatus Pic 1904 View in CoL

Bagous latepunctatus Pic 1904: 50 View in CoL . [ Type locality: Bagdad, Iraq]

Sri Lankan records. O’Brien & Askevold (1995: 69 —Padaviya, Anuradhapura, Minneriya, Trincomalee).

Distribution. Burma, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

Biological Note. This species has been reared from Hydrilla verticillata and Najas guadelupensis . It has been taken feeding on Potamogeton and was swept from submersed Myriophyllum . Numerous adults, presumed to be overwintering, were taken from topsoil in northern Pakistan. Many specimens have also been collected at lights ( O’Brien & Askevold, 1995).